Ibb6.5.89 (copy 1)
Ibb6.5.90 (copy 2)
Ibb6.5.91 (copy 3)
Lk.2.03 (copy 4)
Lk.2.04 (copy 5)
Lk.2.05 (copy 6)
Lk.2.06 (copy 7)
The Eton candle. Volume one / edited by Brian Howard.
Eton : printed at the Savile Press in Eton by Spottiswoode,Ballantyne and Company, Ltd., 1922.
[8], 43, [3], 45-100, [12] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
All published.
Includes a divisional title leaf not counted in numbering, preceding p. 45: "Old Etonian supplement".
Includes [18] pages of advertisements.
Contributors include Harold Acton, Shane Leslie, Sacheverell Sitwell, Aldous Huxley, Maurice Baring, Osbert Sitwell, and Anthony Powell.
Includes the first publication of the poem 'Love' by A.C. Swinburne.
Publisher's pink paper covered card boards; gold stamped title and price on front cover.
Copy 1: Eton College bookplate and donation label with inscription: "The (seventh) Duke of Newcastle".
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".
Copy 4: Brian Howard's inscribed copy dated April 1922.
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?].
Copies 4, 6, 7: Printed flyer for the Eton Society of Arts loosely inserted.
English literature 20th century.
English poetry 20th century.
Howard, Brian, 1905 - 1958 former owner.
Newcastle, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 1864 - 1928 Duke of former owner.
Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. printer.
England Eton.
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