Shelfmark
Lp.2.11 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Ib5.4.55 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Ib5.4.56 (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Ibb1.3.34 (Copy 4)
Main entry--corporate name
Title
Loan collection of portraits, views, and other objects of interest, connected with the history of Eton, : made on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the foundation of the College.
Edition
Third editon, revised and enlarged.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Eton : Printed in Eton College by R. Ingalton Drake, 1891.
Physical description
xii, 116, [6] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Note
Illustrated title-page.
Note
Includes indices.
Note
Paper has horizontal chain lines ; watermarked ; edges uncut.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Boookplate of Shane Leslie.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Loose ms. letter (dated 1966-06-16) to Shane Leslie from H. K. Prescot.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Loose ms. letter (dated 1951-10-31) to Shane Leslie from C. A. Elliott.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Loose typed letter (dated 1964-06-19) with ms. addition to Shane Leslie signed from C. A. Elliott.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Ink stamp on title page: "Manley Sims Eton Collection".
Provenance
[Copy 2] Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Provenance
[Copy 3] Armorial bookplate of Clarence Henry Kennett Marten with a motto "Spes super sidera".
Provenance
[Copy 4] Armorial bookplate of Francis Hay Rawlins.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Ms. inscriptions: "Harold Arthur Perry from the Compiler (?Rawlins) Lady Day, 1919" and "given to R. Austen-Leigh by Mrs Perry".
Binding
[Copy 1] and [Copy 4] Publisher's vellum quarter-binding with green/blue paper boards ; lettering stamped in gold on spine.
Binding
[Copy 2] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Binding
[Copy 3] 19th century ?parchment quarter-binding; boards covered in paper.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Bookseller's stamp on free front endpaper verso: "Hatchards 187 Piccadilly".
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Pencil ms. notes.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Ms. inscription on title page verso: "No 17 of 250.".
Copy-specific note
[Copy 4] Ms. annotations in pencil; loosely inserted typed letter from the circulation manager at the Daily Express, dated 5 Aug. 1937 with ms. notes about the book on reverse.
Subject
Added entry--name
Leslie, Shane, 1885 - 1971 former owner.
Added entry--name
Ingalton Drake, R. publisher.
Added entry--name
Elliott, Claude Aurelius, 1888 - 1973 correspondent.
Added entry--name
Prescot, Henry Kelsall, 1930 - 1967 correspondent.
Added entry--name
Manley Sims, F. former owner.
Added entry--name
Marten, Clarence Henry Kennett, 1872 - 1948 former owner.
Added entry--name
Rawlins, F. H. (Francis Hay), 1850 - 1920 former owner.
Added entry--place
England Eton.
Identifier
B24005