Shelfmark
Ib6.5.35
Additional shelfmark
Ib6.5.36
Additional shelfmark
CS.Eto.1901.04
Author
Title
An Eton boy's letters : selected and arranged by the author of 'A day of my life at Eton'.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Cassell & Company, Limited, 1901.
Physical description
[4], 210 p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Note
Author's name on cover: Nugent Bankes.
Note
Fictional letters describing school life at Eton, signed: Samuel Oldham Rivers.
Note
With a half-title page.
Note
With [4] final leaves of publisher's advertisements.
Note
[Ib6.5.36] and [CS.Eto.1901.04] Publisher's blue cloth case-binding with gold stamped title and author.
Provenance
[Ib6.5.35] Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
[Ib6.5.35] Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Provenance
[Ib6.5.36] Ms. inscription on front free endpaper: "G.H. Cartwright for greek Exercise. Christmas, 1903. from A B ?Ramsay.".
Provenance
[CS.Eto.1901.04] Armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims.
Binding
[Ib6.5.35] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge; publisher's blue cloth front cover with gold stamped title and author pasted on rear flyleaf.
Subject
Subject
Students England Eton.
Subject
Endowed public schools (Great Britain).
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Cassell & Company publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B37222