Shelfmark
Lk.6.29
Additional shelfmark
Ib5.5.64 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Ib5.5.65 (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Kp.3.37 (Copy 4)
Additional shelfmark
CS.Eto.1888.02 (Copy 5)
Author
Title
Dorica / by E.D.S.
Edition
1st ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1, Paternoster Square, 1888.
Physical description
viii, 173 p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Note
With a half-title page.
Note
Colophon: "Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles".
Note
The title suggests an allusion to William Johnson Cory's Ionica, published in 1858.
Note
Publisher's teal cloth case binding; black endpapers.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Bequeathed by Kenneth Rose, 2014.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt. Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.Ms. inscription on half-title page: "L. Vernon Harcourt from E.D. Stone". Ms. letter from E. D. Stone to L.V. Harcourt dated August 17 1894 tipped in between front free endpaper and flyleaf.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Bookplate of A.C. Benson and ms. note in his hand on flyleaf facing half-title with a memoir of being in Stone's division as a boy at Eton, and commenting that "the title is unfortunate in seeming to challenge Ionica" [by William Johnson Cory]. Presentation inscription to Benson from the author dated Stone House, April 1889.
Provenance
[Copy 5] Eton College Library book label.
Binding
[Copy 1] Brown ?morocco binding ; raised bands ; gilt edges.
Binding
[Copy 2] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Binding
[Copies 3-5] Original publisher's binding.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Ms. note on t.p. in Kenneth Rose's hand: "E. D. Stone. Eton?".
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2]
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] With final 43 pages containing "A list of Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.'s publications".
Copy-specific note
[Copy 4] Loosely inserted collection of 4 printed poems by Stone; 4 humorous notes on stationery of Helensbourne, Abingdon to his grandson John Carter, signed 'Granfer'; and 4 ms. items containing verses, not all in Stone's hand.
Added entry--name
Rose, Kenneth, 1924 - ? donor.
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862 - 1925 former owner.
Added entry--name
Stone, Edward Daniel, 1832 - 1916 correspondent.
Added entry--name
Carter, John, 1905 - 1975 associated name.
Added entry--name
Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. publisher.
Added entry--name
William Clowes and Sons printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35113