Shelfmark
Lp.2.09
Additional shelfmark
Ib4.2.31
Additional shelfmark
Ib4.2.32
Additional shelfmark
Ib4.2.33
Author
Title
A day of my life; : or, Every-day experiences at Eton. / by an Eton boy.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street., 1877.
Physical description
vi, [2], 177 p. ; 16 cm. (12mo)
Note
With a half-title page.
Note
Colophon: "Gilbert and Rivington, printers, St. John's Square, London.".
Provenance
[Lp.2.09] Booklabel of Shane Leslie.
Provenance
[Lp.2.09] Bookseller's stamp on back endpaper (W. H. Smith).
Provenance
[Ib4.2.31] Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
[Ib4.2.31] Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Provenance
[Ib4.2.32] Ms. inscription on front endpaper: "R J Herbert ?Burknell Manor Eton Feb 22.".
Provenance
[Ib4.2.33] Bookseller's blind stamp on front free endpaper: "W. H. Smith& Son.".
Provenance
[Ib4.2.33] Ms. inscription on front endpaper: "I read "A day in my life" at Cambridge probably when it was published. bought at bookshop Crescent Road Worthing price [scraped] 5 Dec. 1924".
Binding
[Lp.2.09] and [Ib4.2.32] Publisher's blue cloth case-binding with lettering and device stamped in gold and decoration stamped in black on front board and spine.
Binding
[Ib4.2.31] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Binding
[Ib4.2.33] Publisher's brown cloth case-binding with lettering and device stamped in gold and decoration stamped in black on front board and spine.
Copy-specific note
[Lp.2.09] and [Ib4.2.31] Includes additional "Explanatory chapter" (p. 179-183).
Copy-specific note
[Ib4.2.32] and [Ib4.2.33] With [6] final pages of publisher's advertisements.
Copy-specific note
[Ib4.2.32] Ms. inscription on title page: "Nugent-Bankes [...]".
Subject
Added entry--name
Leslie, Shane, 1885 - 1971 former owner.
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington publisher.
Added entry--name
W. H. Smith & Son bookseller.
Added entry--name
Gilbert & Rivington printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B24003