Shelfmark
Ib7.4.35 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Ib7.4.36 (copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Ib7.4.37 (copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Ibb1.2.15 (copy 4)
Additional shelfmark
CS.Eto.1923.01 (copy 5)
Author
Title
Floreat : an Eton anthology / by Eric Parker.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 1923.
Physical description
xxi, [1], 333, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Note
"Passages from authors of different periods illustrating customs, manners, events, the method of school, the issues of play [etc]"-- p. [v].
Note
With a half-title page.
Note
On title page verso: "Printed in Great Britain by the Whitefriars Press, Ltd., London and Tonbridge.".
Note
Publisher's black cloth case-binding; gold stamped front cover and spine title; Eton arms stamped in gold and light blue on front cover.
Provenance
[Copy 1] J. W. Carter's leaving book with ms. inscription on front free endpaper: "J.W. Carter on his leaving Eton 1924 from E.L.V." and bookplate of J. W. Carter.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Armorial bookplate of Gerald Walter Erskine Loder. Gerald Walter Erskine Loder donation label reading; "The collection of Eton prints & books made by Gerald Loder Lord Wakehurst RAHM 1875-1881 was given by his son RPLB 1908-1914".
Provenance
[Copy 4] From the library of Anne Chevenix-Trench. Some marginal annotations in pencil, probably a previous owner's.
Provenance
[Copy 5] Parker-Jervis and Farmer families' donation label to Eton College on front endpaper.
Binding
[Copy 1] Green ?calf binding; gold tooling around the edges inside boards; gold tooled spine title; gilt edges; binder's stamp: "Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd. Binders".
Binding
[Copy 4] With fragmentary publisher's grey paper dust-jacket.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Newspaper extracts pasted on front endpaper, free endpaper and flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Picture with ms. inscription "Foundation school oldest part of Eton. foundation boys, Kings scholars, or Collegers who have won free scholarships to Eton" pasted across rear endpaper and free endpaper.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 4] Review copy stamped "For review" on half-title; prelims misbound and misprinted, wanting pp. xiv-xv, xviii and [xxii] and with duplicates of leaves containing pp. xvi-xvii and xx-xxi, all bound back to front.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 4] Loosely inserted review of book on Shelley and Keats from the Times Literary Supplement; loosely inserted order form for Christopher Hollis's book "Eton" and reproduction of view of School Yard.
Subject
Added entry--name
Wakehurst, Gerard W. E. Loder,, 1861 - 1936 former owner.
Added entry--name
Nisbet & Co. (Firm) publisher.
Added entry--name
Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd. binder.
Added entry--name
Whitefriars Press Ltd. printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B37609