Shelfmark
Ib8.5.53 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Ib8.5.54 (copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Icc6.1.12 (copy 3)
Author
Title
A poet in Parliament : the life of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 1802-1839 / Derek Hudson.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : John Murray, Albemarle street, W., 1939.
Physical description
x, 268 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note
On title page verso: "First edition, 1939".
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Publisher's green cloth case-binding; gold stamped spine title; with dust-jacket.
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. inscription on front free endpaper: "To the Eton College Library from the author July, 1939".
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. inscription on half-title page: "Found in a bookshop and bought by the Rv. Hon. Kenneth Baker, M.P., in August, 1992, who, on reading the author's inscription offered it to the School Library W.E.K. Anderson 18 Sept[ember] 1992".
Provenance
Copy 2: Armorial bookplate of Clarence Henry Kennett Marten with a motto "Spes super sidera".
Provenance
Copy 3: Ownership inscription in pencil: Eliot, Hillside, [---]mouth.
Binding
Copies 1-2: Lacking the dust-jacket.
Binding
Copy 3: With the dust-jacket.
Copy-specific note
Copy 3: Two news cuttings tipped onto front flyleaf.
Subject
Subject
Politicians Great Britain Biography.
Subject
Poets, English 19th century Biography.
Added entry--name
Marten, Clarence Henry Kennett, 1872 - 1948 former owner.
Added entry--name
Anderson, Eric, 1936 - 2020 inscriber.
Added entry--name
John Murray publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B38371