Shelfmark
Ib4.1.60 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Ibb8.5.79 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Ibb1.1.12 (Copy 3)
Title
How I stole the block. / By an old Etonian.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Bickers and Son, Leicester square., 1883.
Physical description
16 p. : front. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Note
Colophon: "Chiswick press: C. Wittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane".
Provenance
[Copy 1] Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt. Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso. A letter from ?S. Oswald to L.V. Harcourt dated September 13, 1899 pasted on front flyleaf.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Eton College bookplate.
Provenance
[Copy 3] Ms. note on paper cover: "from C.B.S. 1883".
Binding
[Copy 1] 19th-century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge; publisher's ilustrated blue paper wrappers retained.
Binding
[Copy 2] Publisher's illustrated blue paper wrappers; stitched gathering.
Binding
[Copy 3] Bound in blue cloth over ?paste/millboards. Front cover decorated with gilted crest of Eton as centrepiece. Gilted title on the spine. Five flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Stored in a box with other pamphlets.
Subject
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Bickers & Son publisher.
Added entry--name
Chiswick Press printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B36636