Shelfmark
Ib5.2.65 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Ib5.2.66 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Ib5.1.01 (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Ibb1.2.50 (Copy 4)
Additional shelfmark
Ibb1.2.51 (Copy 5)
Author
Lyte, H. C. Maxwell Sir.
Title
A history of Eton College, 1440-1898. / by H.C. Maxwell Lyte, K.C.B. ; with illustrations.
Edition
Third edition, revised throughout and greatly enlarged.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : New York : Macmillan and Co., Limited ; The Macmillan Company., 1899.
Physical description
xxv, [3], 640 p. : ill., front., plates ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Note
With a half-title page.
Note
Colophon: "Richard Clay and Sons, limited, London and Bungay.".
Provenance
[Ib5.2.65] Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
[Ib5.2.65] Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Provenance
[Ib5.2.65] Dedication ms. inscription to L.V. Harcourt from the author dated July 1899.
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[Ib5.2.66] Armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims.
Provenance
[Ib5.2.66] Ink stamp on title page: "Manley Sims Eton Collection".
Provenance
[Ib5.1.01] Armorial bookplate of L.R.A. gatehouse.
Provenance
[Ib5.1.01] Dedication ms. inscription on front flyleaf: "L.R.A. Gatehouse from his tutor A B Ramsay [...] Eton July 1904.".
Provenance
[Copy 4 and Copy 5]: Ex OEA offices during refurbishment in July 2022.
Provenance
[Copy 4]: 20th century bookseller's label on upper pastedown: "F. Weatherhead & Sons Ltd ... Aylesbury."
Provenance
[Copy 4]: Buckinghamshire County Library bookplate on upper pastedown, with various shelfmarks, overstamped by Central Library, Slough; withdrawn.
Provenance
[Copy 4]: Manuscript inscription on upper flyleaf recto: "H. A. . . . with the best wishes of [?Edward] Austen-Leigh . . . July 31 1901." Later inscription, below: "H. H. Hickson 1940."
Provenance
[Copy 5]: Manuscript inscription on upper flyleaf recto: "Ian Bullough from H. F. W. [?Talsham] (with best wishes), Eton Aug 3rd, 1905."
Binding
[Ib5.2.65] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Binding
[Ib5.2.66] 19th century publisher's gold stamped blue cloth case-binding.
Binding
[Ib5.1.01] 19th century gold tooled morocco binding; gilt edges; gold tooling around the edges inside boards; marbled endpapers; binder's stamp on front free endpaper verso: "Spottiswoode & Co. Binder".
Binding
[Copy 4]: Contemporary red morocco binding, unsigned but probably by Spottiswoode. On upper cover, a gilt centrepiece stamp with armorial elements of Eton College and motto, outer border of gilt fillets; on lower cover, the border only; medium-wide squares, the board edges tooled with a gilt dotted fillet; turn-ins tooled with a gilt ornamental roll. Spine with five raised bands, the panels tooled alternatively with gilt stamps of elements of the Eton armorial; gilt lettering. Endpapers comprising marbled paper (pastedown and flyleaf) and plain wove paper (flyleaf). Textblock edges trimmed and gilt at all edges.
Binding
[Copy 5]: Contemporary mahogany ?calf over ?wooden boards, unsigned but probabably by Spottiswoode; rebacked. On upper cover, an elaborate panelled design comprised of individuals tools and fillets, the tools variously ornamental or being elements of the Eton College armorial, with a central stamp depicting the statue of Henry VI; lower cover tooled identically but without the central stamp; medium-wide squares, the board edges tooled with a gilt dotted fillet; turn-ins elaborately gilt. Spine smooth and rounded, decorately chiefly with transverse gilt fillets and ornamental tools, wih gilt lettering. Endpapers comprising marbled paper (pastedown and flyleaf) and plain wove paper (flyleaf). Textblock trimmed and gilt at all edges.
Subject
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Macmillan & Co. publisher.
Added entry--name
Richard Clay and Sons printer.
Added entry--name
Macmillan Company publisher.
Added entry--name
Manley Sims, F. former owner.
Added entry--name
Spottiswoode & Co. binder.
Added entry--name
Old Etonian Association former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
United States New York.
Identifier
B37117