Shelfmark
Lpp.5.01
Additional shelfmark
Lpp.5.02
Additional shelfmark
Lpp.5.03
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Lpp.5.04
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Lpp.5.05
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Ib5.3.57
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[Reference copy]: Qe.1
Author
Title
A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College / by Montague Rhodes James, Litt.D., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge : At the University Press, 1895.
Physical description
xvi, 126 p. ; 27 cm. (8vo)
Note
With a half-title page.
Provenance
[Lpp.5.01] Armorial bookplate of Eton College Library with ms. previous shelfmark in pencil.
Provenance
[Lpp.5.01] Extensive ms. annotations and corrections throughout text in pencil and ink in M. R. James's hand.
Provenance
[Lpp.5.02] Armorial bookplate of Eton College Library with ms. previous shelfmark in pencil.
Provenance
[Lpp.5.02] Ms. extensive annoatations and corrections throughout text in pencil and ink in M. R. James's hand.
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[Lpp.5.02] Loose and tipped-in ms. notes in M. R. James's hand.
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[Lpp.5.03] Booklabel of the M. R. James Collection of Eton College Library with ms. previous shelfmark in pencil.
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[Lpp.5.03] Bookplate of James Orton.
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[Lpp.5.04] Armorial bookplate of Eton College Library with ms. previous shelfmark in pencil.
Provenance
[Lpp.5.04] Loose printed list of mss. in Eton College Library that were photographed in 1941 with ms. annotations signed by A. K. Wickham.
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[Lpp.5.04] Ms. annotations throughout text in the hand of A. K. Wickham and [?]Thomas Lyon about the relocation and photography of mss. during World War II.
Provenance
[Lpp.5.05] Armorial bookplate of Eton College Library with ms. previous shelfmark in pencil.
Provenance
[Lpp.5.05] Extensive ms. annotations throughout text in pencil and ink in M. R. James's hand.
Provenance
[Ib5.3.57] Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
[Ib5.3.57] Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Provenance
[Ib5.3.57] Ms. inscription on front free endpapetr verso signed "L.V.H. [i.e. Lewis Vernon Harcourt] from H.O.S. Jan. 1897".
Binding
[Lpp.5.01] Publisher's dark blue cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine and lettering and device stamped in gold on front board.
Binding
[Ib5.3.57] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge; publisher's gold stamped blue cloth front cover pasted on rear flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
[Lpp.5.02] Typed copy of the publishing agreement for this book between C. J. Clay and Sons and Eton College pasted onto loose back endpaper (now housed in separate envelope at Lq.1.29).
Copy-specific note
[Lpp.5.03] Ms. bookseller's codes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
[Lpp.5.04] Loose copy of a photograph of a ms. with ms. note on reverse.
Copy-specific note
[Qe.1] Two reference copies. Interleaved copy catalogued as MS 932.
Subject
Subject
Manuscripts Catalogs.
Subject
Manuscripts England Eton Catalogs.
Genre/Form
Catalogs
Added entry--name
Orton, James former owner.
Added entry--name
Wickham, Archdale Kenneth, 1897 - 1951 annotator.
Added entry--name
Lyon, Thomas, ? - d. 1959 annotator.
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England Cambridge.
Link
Electronic version https://archive.org/details/descriptivecatal00jameuoft/page/n8
Identifier
B24228