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Ibb6.5.89 (copy 1)

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Ibb6.5.90 (copy 2)

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Ibb6.5.91 (copy 3)

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Lk.2.03 (copy 4)

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Lk.2.04 (copy 5)

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Lk.2.05 (copy 6)

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Lk.2.06 (copy 7)

Title

The Eton candle. Volume one / edited by Brian Howard.

Publication, distribution, etc.

Eton : printed at the Savile Press in Eton by Spottiswoode,Ballantyne and Company, Ltd., 1922.

Physical description

[8], 43, [3], 45-100, [12] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.

Note

All published.

Note

Includes a divisional title leaf not counted in numbering, preceding p. 45: "Old Etonian supplement".

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Includes [18] pages of advertisements.

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Contributors include Harold Acton, Shane Leslie, Sacheverell Sitwell, Aldous Huxley, Maurice Baring, Osbert Sitwell, and Anthony Powell.

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Includes the first publication of the poem 'Love' by A.C. Swinburne.

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Publisher's pink paper covered card boards; gold stamped title and price on front cover.

Provenance

Copy 1: Eton College bookplate and donation label with inscription: "The (seventh) Duke of Newcastle".

Provenance

Copy 3: Ms. inscription addressed to Mrs Pearce and signed by Howard Acton on front free endpaper. -- Bookseller's label on front endpaper: "Parker & Son. Ltd., English & Foreign Booksellers. 27, Broad Street, Oxford".

Provenance

Copy 4: Brian Howard's inscribed copy dated April 1922.

Provenance

Copy 5: Ownership inscription of Patrick Browne dated Eton, 8 April 1922. Browne was in F. W. Dobb's house, 1920-1925. -- ALS from Browne to Michael Meredith dated 7 February 1986 presenting the book [to Eton School Library?].

Copy-specific note

Copies 4, 6, 7: Printed flyer for the Eton Society of Arts loosely inserted.

Subject

English literature 20th century.

Subject

English poetry 20th century.

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England Eton.

Identifier

B42426
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