Shelfmark
Nd.3.29
Additional shelfmark
Ib7.4.08
Additional shelfmark
Ib7.4.09
Additional shelfmark
Ib7.4.10
Additional shelfmark
Ib7.4.29
Additional shelfmark
CS.Eto.1921.01
Additional shelfmark
L.Ref
Title
List of Etonians who fought in the Great War, 1914-1919.
Varying form of title
Added title page title: List of Etonians who fought in the great war MCMXIV-MCMXIX
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London : Philip Lee Warner, 1921].
Physical description
xi, [1], 281, [3] p. ; 27 cm.
Note
Imprint from colophon.
Note
Compiled by E. L. Vaughan. Cf. p. [282].
Note
There is inserted a supplement of 12 pages with heading: "There is given in the following pages information as to the places where the one thousand and thirty-one Etonians, whose deaths are attributable to enemy action, were killed or received a fatal wound".
Note
Colophon: "Printed privately for Eton College in the Riccardi Press Fount by Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society Limited, VII Grafton Street, London, W MDCCCXXI".
Note
Portions of text and supplement printed in red as well as black ink.
Provenance
[Nd.3.29] Presented to Eton College by Eugen Millington-Drake in 1938.
Provenance
[Ib7.4.09] Bookplate of Reginald Livesey with a motto "Deo soli gloria".
Provenance
[Ib7.4.09] Typed loose note from E.L. Vaughan dated July 26, 1923.
Provenance
[Ib7.4.29] Loose ms. letter to the Vice-Provost from Robert Lambert dated 1939.
Provenance
[Ib7.4.29] Bookplate of Leonard Noble.
Provenance
[L.Ref] Given to ECL by Ned Boldero in October 2016; passed down to him from the family of Arthur Dunn OE (1860-1902), founder of Ludgrove prep school, who won the FA Cup with the Old Etonians in 1882 and captained England in 1892.
Binding
[Nd.3.29] Blue leather binding ; decoration in brown leather on front board ; gilt lettering on spine; gilt top edge; gilt border on front board ; bound by Best & Co.
Binding
[Ib7.4.08], [Ib7.4.09], [Ib7.4.10], [CS.Eto.1921.01] and [L.Ref] Cream cloth quarter-binding; boards covered with blue paper; paper label with title on front cover and spine; gilt top edge.
Binding
[Ib7.4.29] ?Suede or reversed calf binding; gold stamped front cover title; endpapers layered with fabric; silk ties; gilt top edge.
Copy-specific note
[Nd.3.29] Previous shelfmark: 87.11.
Copy-specific note
[Nd.3.29] Page of statistics about Etonians who served in the war pasted to front endpaper. Cutting from the Eton College Chronicle (No. 1917) with corrections pasted to colophon.
Copy-specific note
[Ib7.4.08] Interleaved with pages containing ms. notes and corrections.
Copy-specific note
[Ib7.4.08], [Ib7.4.10], [Ib7.4.29], [CS.Eto.1921.01] and [L.Ref] Loose quires containing corrections to the Eton war list.
Copy-specific note
[Ib7.4.09] Four newspaper extracts pasted on front endpaper and free endpaper.
Copy-specific note
[Ib7.4.10] Stamped on front cover: "For the head master of Eton from the compiler".
Copy-specific note
[Ib7.4.29] Programme for the Founder's Day, December 6th, 1921 pasted on rear flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
[Ib7.4.29] Loose bifolio from Eton College Chronicle from January 6, 1922.
Copy-specific note
[Ib7.4.29] Newspaper extract (photograph) of ?"Unveiling of the bronze frieze recording the names of the fallen" at the Founder's Day, 1921 pasted on front flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
[L.Ref] Pencil inscription: "Mrs A. T. B. Dunn, see page 79" where there are pencil forenames against entries for J. H. M. Dunn and L. R. Dunne.
Subject
Eton College
Subject
World War, 1914-1918.
Subject
World War, 1914-1918 Registers England.
Added entry--name
Millington-Drake, Eugen, 1889 - 1972 donor.
Added entry--name
Vaughan, E. L. (Edward Littleton)
Added entry--name
Best & Co. binder.
Added entry--name
Philip Lee Warner publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B33265