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Shelfmark

Ib4.2.25 (Copy 1)

Additional shelfmark

Ib4.2.26 (Copy 2)

Additional shelfmark

Ibb1.2.48 (Copy 3)

Author

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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Macmillan & Co. publisher.

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Hawes, J. B. binder.

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England London

Language code

eng

Identifier

B36460
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