Shelfmark
Ibb6.2.67
Additional shelfmark
Ibb6.2.68-Ibb6.2.69
Additional shelfmark
Ibb6.2.70-Ibb6.2.71
Additional shelfmark
Ibb6.2.72
Title
The microcosm, a periodical work, by Gregory Griffin, of the College of Eton. Inscribed to the Rev. Dr. Davies. In two volumes.
Edition
The fourth edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Windsor : printed and sold by C. Knight, Castle-Street; sold also by Mess. Stockdale, Piccadilly; Mr. R. S. Kirby, London-House-Yard; Mr. Walker, Paternoster-Row; and Mr. Mawman, Poultry, London; also by Mr. R. Bliss, Oxford., 1809.
Physical description
2 v. : front. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Note
Gregory Griffin is the pseudonym of, inter alia, George Canning, Charles Ellis, Hookham Frere, and John and Robert Smith.
Note
Written by a group of friends while at Eton; includes essays on the conduct of life and other cultural and philosophical topics, written as letters from pseudonymous or imaginary correspondents.
Provenance
[Ibb6.2.67] Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
[Ibb6.2.67] Eton College Library ink stamp.
Provenance
[Ibb6.2.68-Ibb6.2.69] Eton College bookplate.
Provenance
[Ibb6.2.68-Ibb6.2.69] Donation label of J. H. Rawlins
Binding
[Ibb6.2.67] 19th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge.
Binding
[Ibb6.2.68-Ibb6.2.69] 19th century blue morocco binding; gold tooled ornament perimeter frame; gold tooled spine; gilt edges; marbled endpapers.
Binding
[Ibb6.2.70-Ibb6.2.71] 19th century brown calf binding; gold tooled perimeter frame; gold tooled spine; red sprinkled edges; endbands.
Binding
[Ibb6.2.72] 19th century cloth case-binding; gold stamped spine title.
Copy-specific note
ECL holdings: No. I. (Monday, November 6, 1786.)-No. XL. (Monday, July 30, 1787.).
Copy-specific note
[Ibb6.2.67] Bound in one volume.
Subject
Subject
Conduct of life Periodicals Early works to 1800.
Subject
College student newspapers and periodicals England Eton.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Knight, C. publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--place
England Windsor.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B42791