Meredith and Co. is a classic 1933 children's novel by George Mills (writer). Meredith and Co. and its sequel, King Willow (1938), HAD been popular from their initial publications in 1933 and 1938, through at least one reprinting in the late 1950s.
The text was originally published in 1933 by Oxford University Press, London, and was illustrated with plates by the renowned illustrator C. E. Brock. It was reprinted by the same publishing house in 1950 with new illustrations signed "D. White".
Meredith and Co. was reprinted by Andrew Dakers, Ltd., London, and printed in Czechoslovakia. The undated text is circa 1957. Its new illustrations updated the look of the characters to the Post-war period of the United Kingdom, and were done by an illustrator who signed his work "Vernon".
The text follows the adventures of Meredith (Muggs), a Sixth Form prefect at fictional Leadham House Preparatory School in England, and the adventures he has with his friends Hawk, Pongo, Clayton, Pigface, Renton, and Murray as well as a ubiquitous and beloved bulldoog named Uggles.
According to Dr. Thomas Houston of Windlesham House School, Brighton, Meredith and Co. was exceptional as it "captured the idiom of pupils during the interwar period more accurately than any other novel." [1]