Shelfmark
Ib5.4.10 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Ib5.4.11 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
CS.Eto.1889.03 (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
CS.Eto.1889.01 (Copy 4)
Additional shelfmark
Xb6.4.22 (Copy 5)
Author
Lyte, H. C. Maxwell Sir.
Title
A history of Eton College, 1440-1884. / by H.C. Maxwell Lyte, C.B. ; with illustrations by P.H. Delamotte, and others.
Edition
A new edition revised and enlarged.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : New York : Macmillan and Co., 1889.
Physical description
xxiii, [1], 543, [1] p., : ill, front., plates ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Note
With a half-title page.
Note
Colophon: "Richard Clay and Sons, limited, London and Bungay.".
Note
[Copy 2 and Copy 4] 19th century publisher's gold stamped case-binding.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Parker-Jervis and Farmer families' donation label to Eton College on front free endpaper verso.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Dedication ms. inscription on front flyleaf: "J. S. Parker-Jervis. In memory of Col. R. Bedford. given to one by his widow. 1917.".
Provenance
[Copy 3] Dedication ms. inscription on front flyleaf: "Balfour Macnaghten from H. ?Brinton Eton. March. 1893.".
Provenance
[Copy 4] Ms. inscription "Presented by F. Warre Cornish 29 June 1894" on tipped in "From the author" label.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Red and black Eton College Library book label.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Eton College bookplate.
Provenance
[Copy 5] Ms. inscription: "Charles Henry Stanley Trench from Walter Durnford with all good wishes" Eton, Election 1893"; booklabel: "Caption Charles Trench, Sopwell Hall, Cloughjordan, Kildare Street Club" ; embossed stamp: "Sopwell Hall Cloughjordan, Ireland".
Binding
[Copy 1] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge; publisher's gold stamped blue cloth cover pasted on rear flyleaf.
Binding
[Copy 3 and Copy 5] 19th century brown calf ?case-binding; wooden boards; five single sewing supports; gold tooled centrepiece decoration on front board; gold tooled spine title; marbled endpapers; marbled edges; binder's stamp on front free endpaper verso: "R.Ingalton Drake, binder".
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Free endpaper and flylef from previous (publisher's) binding containing ms. notes in pencil inserted between rear endpapers.
Subject
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Ingalton Drake, R. binder.
Added entry--name
Trench, Charles Sadleir Musgrave former owner.
Added entry--name
Macmillan & Co. publisher.
Added entry--name
Richard Clay and Sons printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
United States New York.
Identifier
B36743