Shelfmark
Ok.3.13 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
CS.1342.05 (copy 2)
Author
Uniform title
[Wilhelm der Zweite. English]
Title
Kaiser Wilhelm II / by Emil Ludwig ; translated from the German by Ethel Colburn Mayne.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1926]
Physical description
xvi, 459 p. : front., ports., facsim. ; 22 cm.
Note
Copy 2: Ninth impression (December 1929).
Note
With a half-title.
Provenance
Copy 1: Presented to Eton College by Eugen Millington-Drake in 1938.
Provenance
Copy 2: Acquired as part of the Clive Feather (OE) prize books collection with a bookplate on back pastedown reading: "Hunc librum Clive E. Feather [name supplied in ms.] Honoris. Causa. Dono. Dedit. Gileus? Allington [name supplied in ms] Magister Informator. Etonae A.S. MCMXXXIII [XXXIII seems to be supplied in ms.]”.
Binding
Copy 1: Dark blue leather half binding with gilt lettering on spine, gilt top edge, marbled paper covered boards; bound by Best & Co.
Binding
Copy 2: Publisher's red cloth binding with black lettering on front board and spine.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: At request of Eugen Millington-Drake, ms. signature of Emil Ludwig on title-page, dated 1928.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Ms. signature of William II, German Emperor, tipped into front endpaper.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Newspaper cutting with article titled "The Empress Frederick, a German legend, the call to Sir Morell Mackenzie" by Rennell Rodd, pasted into front endpaper.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Shelved with Eton leaving books.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Publisher's bookmark reading "Small books of great history".
Subject
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Mayne, Ethel Colburn, ? - 1941 translator.
Added entry--name
Feather, Clive E. former owner.
Added entry--name
Alington, Cyril, 1872 - 1955 donor.
Added entry--name
Best & Co. binder.
Added entry--name
G. P. Putnam's Sons publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng ger
Identifier
B31603