I have this book (Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley). The award sticker date (1915) shows that not only is it considerably older than me but also older than my parents, and possibly even their parents! It is clear that the recipient had only read up to page 29 as the rest of the pages remain ‘unopened’ (I had to look it up). The definition of Unopened is:
“UNOPENED
This means that the leaves of a book issued entirely untrimmed (and therefore having the folding of its component sections still intact at the top and fore-edges) have not been severed from their neighbours with the paper-knife. It must not be confused, as it often is by philistines, with UNCUT” 🤣
Wow! What a treasure! (You haven't told us how you came to have this book, Lesley...maybe that's another story) And thank you for the explanation of "unopened."
