Shelfmark
Icc2.2.21-22
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy:] Icc2.2.23
Author
Title
Alcestis.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1873.
Physical description
2 v. (xiv, 320 ; vi, 290 p.) ; 19 cm.
Note
Both vols with a half-title.
Note
Both vols with publisher's green ribbed cloth with lettering and decoration stamped in black on boards, and in gold on spine.
Note
[Icc2.2.23] Both vols in one, with variant publisher's burgundy/purple binding with blind stamped decoration on boards and lettering and decoration stamped in gold on spine.
Provenance
[Icc2.2.21-22] Both vols with ms. inscription: "I. Darwin [Emma Cecilia 'Ida' née Farrer], Cambridge, Sep. 1931" and vol 1 continues: "From [illegible name], among K. E. F.'s [Katherine Euphemia Farrer née Wedgewood] books ..."
Provenance
[Icc2.2.21-22] Bookplate of Thomas Henry Farrer (Katherine Euphemia was his second wife).
Provenance
[Icc2.2.21-22] Ms. inscription: "K. E. W. [Katherine Euphemia Wedgewood married name Farrer], with kind rememberance, B. C. [Blanche Warre Cornish], Eton June 1873, for singing on (St Cecilia's Day 1872)".
Provenance
[Icc2.2.23] Ms. inscription in pencil: "Kitty Eales".
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.2.21-22] Both vols with ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.2.21-22] Vol 1 with ms. bookseller's notes and code in pencil.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.2.23] Ms. bookseller's notes, codes, and price in pencil.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.2.23] Back free endpaper pasted onto back pastedown.
Added entry--name
Darwin, Emma Cecilia, 1854 - 1946 former owner.
Added entry--name
Farrer, Thomas Henry, 1819 - 1899 former owner.
Added entry--name
Farrer, Katherine Euphemia former owner.
Added entry--name
Eales, Kitty former owner.
Added entry--name
Smith, Elder & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B27773