Ib4.5.08
Kp.4.08 (Copy 2)
Kp.4.06(08) (Copy 3)
Anti-paterfamilias' Views on Eton. / By a present Etonian.
Eton : Ingalton and Drake., [1861].
Author's name from L. V. Harcourt's "An Eton bibliography"; publication date inferred.
"Price sixpence." -- from title page.
[Copy 1] Ms. inscription in ink on front free endpaper verso: "From Lionel Muirhead". Ms. inscription in pencil on title page: "from Lionel Muirhead 1897". Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
[Copy 2] Pencil inscription: W. Selwyn, St John's.
[Copy 3] Bound in a sammelband of materials related to three letters from "Paterfamilias", i.e. Matthew James Higgins to the editor of the Cornhill Magazine and William Johnson Cory's responses "Eton reform" and "Eton reform II.", possibly assembled by Higgins.
[Copy 1] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
[Copy 2] Unbound, without wrappers.
[Copy 3] 19th century brown leather half binding; dark green cloth boards; gilt spine title "Eton reform 1860-61".
[Copy 1] Ms. inscription on title page verso: "Written by Northcote ma (walter Stafford 2nd Lord Iddesleigh) & Muirhead ma. 1860.".
[Copy] Ms. note at head of title identifying author as "Mr Northcote".
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Ingalton and Drake publisher.
England Eton.
B35871