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Ib5.2.17 (Copy 1)
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Ibb1.3.03 (Copy 2)
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Kp.4.43 (Copy 3)
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Kp.4.44 (Copy 4)
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Kp.4.45 (Copy 5)
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Kp.4.46 (Copy 6)
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Kp.4.47 (Copy 7)
Author
Title
Extracts from the letters and journals of William Cory author of 'Ionica' / selected and arranged by Francis Warre Cornish.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford : Printed for the subscribers, MDCCCXCVII. [1897]
Physical description
[4], 586, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Note
Title page verso and colophon: "Oxford printed for the subscribers by Horace Hart printer to the University"; final page blank.
Note
With the list of subscribers following the title page.
Note
Photographic frontispiece portrait of Cory protected by tissue guard.
Note
Publisher's olive green cloth boards; black leather spine with gilt spine title and imprint place and date; olive green endpapers.
Citation/references note
Carter, J. Hand-list of the printed works of William Johnson, afterwards Cory (Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society ; 1, 1949), 22
Provenance
[Copy 1] Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt. Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
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[Copy 2] Ms. inscription: "?EMR C. Austen Leigh, ?Eton".
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[Copy 3] Booklabel of John Carter.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Booklabel of [Eton] College Library with ms. note: "Given by Mr G. Madan, Sept. 1928". Small gilt bookplate of John Drinkwater and his signature on endpaper at foot of brief bibliographical note in his hand. Ms. inscription: "Edmond Warre, Eton College".
Provenance
[Copy 5] Bookplate of Edward Chenevix Austen Leigh. Ms. inscription "E. Cx. Austen Leigh [?] ECAL, July 1897".
Provenance
[Copy 6] Ms. inscription: "E. M. Oakley".
Provenance
[Copy 7] Bookplate of F. Manley Sims. Oval ink stamp of Manley Sims Eton Collection. Circular ink stamp of Eton College Library.
Binding
[Copy 1] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Binding
[Copy 2] Late 19th/early 20th century green leather binding; title and publisher and publication date stamped in gold on spine; rebacked in 20th century green cloth binding.
Binding
[Copy 7] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Title page of "Admirals all and other verses" by Henry Newbolt, London: Elkin Mathews, Vigo street, 1898 tipped in between front free andpaper and flyleaf. A poem "Ionicus" (probably from "Admirals all...") pasted on front flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Loosely inserted newspaper extract "The other Oscar" by Shane Leslie, from "Time and tide", 11 February 1956; article reviews 'Victorian Eton and Cambridge: being the life and times of Oscar Browning' by H.E. Wortham (Arthur Barker, [1956]).
Copy-specific note
[Copy 5] Page references in pencil on endpaper.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 6] Transcription of A. C. Benson's description of Cory (6 lines) on endpaper.
Subject
Subject
Poets, English 19th century Biography.
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Hart, Horace, 1840 - 1916 printer.
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Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
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Austen Leigh, C. former owner.
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Carter, John, 1905 - 1975 former owner.
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Warre, Edmond, 1837 - 1920 former owner.
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Drinkwater, John, 1882 - 1937 former owner.
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Madan, Geoffrey, 1895 - 1947 donor.
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Austen-Leigh, Edward Chenevix, 1865 - ? former owner.
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Manley Sims, F. donor.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Identifier
B37050