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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.
Note
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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Howard, Brian, 1905 - 1958 former owner.
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Newcastle, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 1864 - 1928 Duke of former owner.
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Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. printer.
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England Eton.
Identifier
B42426