Nd.2.01 - Nd.2.05
Memoirs of the Harvard dead in the war against Germany / by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
Cambridge [Mass.] : Harvard University Press, 1920-24.
5 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Presented to Eton College by Eugen Millington-Drake in 1938.
Armorial bookplate reading "Liber E bibliotheca regie schole Etonensis" on front pastedown. Accession date[?] recorded in ms. as "Feb 1927" and donor recorded as "Mr. E. Millington Drake" on the bookplate of each vol.
Publisher's red buckram binding with gilt lettering on spine and front board ; housed in case with navy leather half-binding over marbled paper covered boards; gilt lettering on spine; case bound by Best & Co.
Previous shelfmark: 87.18-22.
Presentation inscription in ms. on front endpaper of 1st vol: "Presented by Harvard University to Mr. E. Millington Drake for his collection of war books destined for The Library of Eton College. Inscribed by A. Lawrence Lorrell, President, Harvard University." Also signed by Howe on front endpaper and t.p. of each subsequent vol.
Harvard University
Harvard University
World War, 1914-1918.
Best & Co. binder.
Harvard University Press publisher.
United States Cambridge.
B33181