Shelfmark
Ib4.2.25 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Ib4.2.26 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Ibb1.2.48 (Copy 3)
Author
Lyte, H. C. Maxwell Sir.
Title
A history of Eton College, 1440-1875. / by H.C. Maxwell Lyte ; with illustrations by P.H. Delamotte, a steel engraving by C.H. Jeens, etc.
Edition
New issue, with corrections.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Macmillan and Co., 1877.
Physical description
xx, 527, 8 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill, plans ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Note
With a half-title page.
Note
With final 8 pages of "Supplemental notes and corrections".
Note
[Copy 3]: Publisher's green cloth binding, slightly bevelled. Upper cover with gold-stamped portrait of Henry VI and decorative armorial borders above and below; lower cover with blind-stamped publisher's monogram. Spine rounded, with gilt titling, gilt similarly to upper cover. Textblock edges trimmed, rounded, and gilt at top edge.
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Armorial bookplate of Gerald Walter Erskine Loder.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Gerald Walter Erskine Loder donation label reading; "The collection of Eton prints & books made by Gerald Loder Lord Wakehurst RAHM 1875-1881 was given by his son RPLB 1908-1914".
Provenance
[Copy 3]: Manuscript inscription on recto of plate facing title-page: "D. C. Lindsay / Eton College."
Provenance
[Copy 3]: Bookseller's codes on free upper endpaper verso.
Provenance
[Copy 3]: Donated by Peter Crawford Lindsay (son of former owner) in 2022.
Binding
[Copy 1]: 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Binding
[Copy 2]: 19th century green morocco binding; five raised bands; marbled endpapers; gilt edges; binder's stamp on front free endpaper verso: "Bound by J.B. Hawes, Cambridge".
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2]: Stamp on front free endpaper verso: "Macmillan& Bowes. Cambridge".
Subject
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Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Wakehurst, Gerard W. E. Loder,, 1861 - 1936 former owner.
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Lindsay, David Ludovic Peter, 1900 - 1971 former owner.
Added entry--name
Macmillan & Co. publisher.
Added entry--name
Hawes, J. B. binder.
Added entry--place
England London
Language code
eng
Identifier
B36460