Shelfmark
Lbb.4.35 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Lbb.4.36 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Ib5.1.04 (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Ib5.1.05 (Copy 4)
Additional shelfmark
Ibb1.3.05 (Copy 5)
Author
Title
Fasti Etonenses : a biographical history of Eton / selected from the lives of celebrated Etonians by Arthur Christopher Benson of Eton College.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Eton : London : R. Ingalton Drake ; Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1899.
Physical description
xvi, 536 p. : ill., plates, ports. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Note
With a half-title.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Armorial bookplate of Sir Christopher Lever recording donation, ms. inscription: "Presented to Eton College by [Sir Christopher Lever] January 1998".
Provenance
[Copy 1] Label on front paste-down: "Sir Christopher Lever, Newell House, Winkfield, Berks, SL4 4SE".
Provenance
[Copy 1] Ms. inscription: "Simonds [Frederick Adolphus Simonds] - Audleys Wood. Basingstoke.".
Provenance
[Copy 1] Loose ms. letter to [?]Master from Arthur Christopher Benson dated July 12 1912.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Loose brushbuck hide bookmark with ms inscription: "To John from Rona with many thanks".
Provenance
[Copy 2] Ms. inscription: "To J. F. G. Gilliat from A C Benson, Eton, March, 1900. With all best wishes".
Provenance
[Copy 3] Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
[Copy 3] Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Armorial bookplate of Algernon Heneage Drummond.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Eton College Library book label.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Ms. inscription: "Algernon Drummond 1900".
Provenance
[Copy 5] Tipped-in letter on Eton College headed paper, with ms. note: "With the author's compliments".
Provenance
[Copy 5] Tipped-in ALS on Godolphin House, Eton College headed paper, from Arthur Benson to Wasey Sterry, dated Feb. 20 1900, regarding Sterry's previous letter about the book and the unlikely possibility of a further edition being produced.
Provenance
[Copy 5] Ms. inscription: "Wasey Sterry Xmas 1899".
Binding
[Copy 1] and [Copy 4] Publisher's blue cloth binding with Eton College arms stamped in gold on front board.
Binding
[Copy 2] Red leather binding with gilt coat of arms and decoration on front board and gilt decoration on spine and back boards; gilt lettering on black leather title label on spine; edges gilt.
Binding
[Copy 3] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge; publisher's blue cloth front cover pasted on rear flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] and [Copy 2] Ms. bookseller's code in pencil.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 5] Ms. annotations in pencil.
Subject
Subject
Subject
Added entry--name
Ingalton Drake, R. printer.
Added entry--name
Lever, Christopher, 1932 - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Simonds, Frederick Adolphus, 1881 - 1953 former owner.
Added entry--name
Gilliat, J. F. G. former owner.
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Bland, Francis Malthy, 1845- - ? former owner.
Added entry--name
Drummond, Algernon. former owner.
Added entry--name
Sterry, Wasey, 1866 - 1955 former owner.
Added entry--name
Simpkin, Marshall and Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England Eton.
Identifier
B19894