Shelfmark
Ib4.1.62
Additional shelfmark
Ib4.1.63
Additional shelfmark
Ib4.1.64
Additional shelfmark
CS.Eto.1883.01
Title
Records of an Eton schoolboy. / Edited by Charles Milnes Gaskell ; with a preface by Sir Francis Doyle.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : Chiswick Press, C. Whittingham and Co., 1883.
Physical description
x, 180 p. ; 21 cm.
Note
Chiefly letters from J.M. Gaskell to his mother & from A. Hallam to J.M. Gaskell.
Note
On title page: "Privately printed.".
Note
[Ib4.1.62], [Ib4.1.63] and [CS.Eto.1883.01] Publisher's 19th century blue cloth case-binding; gold stamped spine title and Eton arms on front board; foredge and bottom adge untrimmed.
Note
Preface by Francis Hastings Doyle in which he gives a brief account of the Debating Society.
Note
Colophon: "Chiswick press: - C. Wittingham and Co., Tooks court, Chancery Lane.".
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With half-title page.
Note
With additional leaf before the half-title page containing a dedication template "To ... With the kind regards of the editor. 1883".
Provenance
[Ib4.1.62] Ms. dedication inscription on the dedication template to Sir Alfred Lyall K.C.B. dated January 27th 1893.
Provenance
[Ib4.1.63] Eton College bookplate.
Provenance
[Ib4.1.63] Ms. inscription on front free endpaper verso: "Eton College Library Br72.28a".
Provenance
[Ib4.1.63] Crossed out ms. dedication inscription on the dedication template to the Rev. Edmund Warre.
Provenance
[Ib4.1.63] Ms. dedication inscription below Warre ms. inscription: "Presented by Evelyn Milnes Gaskell to Eton College january 26th 1927.".
Provenance
[Ib4.1.64] Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
[Ib4.1.64] Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Provenance
[Ib4.1.64] Ms. dedication inscription on the dedication template to Mrs Heywood, Wenlock Abbey.
Provenance
[CS.Eto.1883.01] Dedication ms. inacription from the editor to Sir Thomas Edwards Moss.
Binding
[Ib4.1.64] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge; publisher's blue cloth front cover pasted on rear flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
[Ib4.1.64] Bookseller's extract regarding this work pasted on front free endpaper verso.
Subject
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Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
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Chiswick Press. printer.
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England London.
Identifier
B36639