Shelfmark
Loo.1.06 - Loo.1.08
Author
Gladstone, W. E., 1809 - 1898 (William Ewart)
Title
Studies on Homer and the Homeric age / by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, D.C.L., M.P. for the University of Oxford.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford : At the University Press, MDCCCLVIII [1858].
Physical description
3v, folded plates : ill., maps ; 22cm.
Note
Each vol has additional title-page.
Note
Vol 1 with final addenda pages.
Note
Vol 3 with final folded plate on cloth.
Note
Ms. annotations in at least two hands in vols 1 and 3 ; vol 3 with ms. note: "Studies on Ome by the People's beloved(?) William".
Note
Vol 3 with facsimile of endpaper tipped-in.
Note
All vols with ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Formatted contents note
Contents: vol 1: "I. Prolegomena, II. Achaeis, or, The Ethnology of the Greek races" ; vol 2: "Olympus: or, The religion of the homeric age" ; vol 3: "I. Agorè : polities of the homeric age, II. Ilios : Trojans and Greeks compared, III. Thalassa : the outer geography, IV. Aoidos : some points of the poetry of Homer".
Provenance
All vols with armorial bookplate of Eton College School Library ; donation plate of Eton College School Library with ms. inscription: "The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone".
Binding
All vols with red morocco half-binding, with red morocco buckram boards, gilt lettering and tooling, and marbled edges and endpapers.
Subject
Subject
Civilization, Homeric.
Added entry--name
Gladstone, W. E., 1809 - 1898 (William Ewart) donor.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Identifier
B25799