[Printed British civil service paper.] Open Competition for registration as Boy Copyist (New Class) in the Civil Service, August, 1898. Regulations, Examination Papers, and Table of Marks.

24pp., foolscap 8vo. With 3pp. of lithographed plates ('Copying MS.') between pp.6 and 7, giving two examples of uncorrected manuscripts for the contestants to copy out. Stitched and unbound. On aged paper, with the first and last leaves and fore-edges of plates worn and chipped at extremities. Divided into three sections: 'Regulations, &c.', 'Examination Papers' and 'Table of Marks'. The last item (pp.12-24) is headed 'Table showing the Results of an Open Competition Examination held on the 9th and 10th August, in the year 1898, of Candidates for 164 situations as Temporary Boy Copyist (New Class), in Public Departments.' It lists the results in six fields of hundreds of candidates, from J. Calveley of Dublin (totalling 1581 out of 1800), but with the names of the unsuccessful candidates omitted. Scarce: no copies on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat. (The National Library of Scotland has a similar item, published in the previous year by Harrison and Sons.)