Shelfmark
Lp.4.26 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Lp.4.27 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Lp.4.28 (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Lp.3.01 (Copy 4)
Additional shelfmark
Lrr.1.04 (Copy 5)
Author
Title
The cantab / by Shane Leslie.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Chatto & Windus, 1926.
Physical description
[8], 286, [6] p. ; 19 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Includes final two advertisement leaves.
Note
[Copy 1]: Publisher's light blue cloth binding with lettering stamped in dark blue on spine and front board.
Note
The first (suppressed) edition.
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Manuscript bookseller's price in pencil.
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Bookseller's label on front pastedown (Aktiebolaget Biblioteksbokhandein, Stockholm).
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Manuscript inscription: "This book condemned, withdrawn, and destroyed in the first edition is presented by the author to Doreen Sainsbury, June 14, 1959, Boveney, Shane Leslie".
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Manuscript annotations on back endpapers in Shane Leslie's hand.
Provenance
[Copy 5]: Bookplate of Norman Routledge with manuscript inscription: "N. A. Routledge, February 1954".
Provenance
[Copy 5]: Manuscript bookseller's prices in pencil.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Manuscript bookseller's note and price in pencil.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Bookplate of Shane Leslie; extensive annotations and inscriptions in Shane Leslie's hand throughout text and on endpapers, some tipped-in.
Provenance
[Copy 3]: Sheet, loosely inserted, with manuscript inscription by Shane Leslie.
Binding
[Copy 2]: With dust-jacket.
Binding
[Copy 2]: 20th century vellum quarter-binding with light blue cloth boards ; gilt lettering on spine;; bound by Best & Co. (binder's stamp on front endpaper).
Binding
[Copy 3]: 20th century black morocco half-binding with black and gold marbled paper boards; gilt lettering and decoration on spine; marbled endpapers.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 5]: Manuscript list of characters in the book, with their real-life counterparts, on front endpapers in Norman Routledge's hand.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2]: ALS/TLS, loosely inserted or tipped-in, from various people (including Henry John, Hugh Macnaghten, and Edmund Oliver) to Shane Leslie about this book.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 4]: Newspaper clipping, loosely inserted, of an article concerning the suppression of this book; and illustration of King's College, Cambridge pasted on front endpaper.
Subject
Subject
English literature 20th century.
Subject
Catholics England Intellectual life.
Added entry--name
Sainsbury, Doreen former owner.
Added entry--name
Macnaghten, Hugh, 1862 - 1929 correspondent.
Added entry--name
John, Henry, b. 1907 - ? correspondent.
Added entry--name
Oliver, Edmund G. correspondent.
Added entry--name
Chatto & Windus publisher.
Added entry--name
Aktiebolaget Biblioteksbokhandein bookseller.
Added entry--name
Best & Co. binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B23932