Shelfmark
Ibb8.4.07(03)
Additional shelfmark
Kp.4.06(04) (copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Kp.3.49(03) (copy 3)
Author
Title
A third letter from paterfamilias to the editor of the "Cornhill Magazine" / [Paterfamilias].
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London : Smith, Elder & Co., March 1861].
Physical description
pp. [257] - 269 ; 22 cm.
Note
Extract from "The Cornhill Magazine", March 1861, vol. III, no. 15.
Note
Spine title: "Various extracts from magazines".
Note
Signed: "Paterfamilias", which is the pseudonym of Matthew Higgins.
Note
Caption title.
Note
Article discusses the author's opinions on Eton College.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims. Ink library stamps: "Manley Sims Eton Collection"; Eton College Library stamp.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Bound in a sammelband of materials related to three letters from "Paterfamilias", i.e. Matthew James Higgins to the editor of the Cornhill Magazine and William Johnson Cory's responses "Eton reform" and "Eton reform II.", possibly assembled by Higgins.
Provenance
[Copy 3] Bound in a sammelband of materials related to three letters from "Paterfamilias", i.e. Matthew James Higgins to the editor of the Cornhill Magazine and William Johnson Cory's responses "Eton reform" and "Eton reform II.", with armorial bookplate of Charles Bowyer Adderley, Hams Hall, Warwickshire and booklabel of Hams Hall Library.
Binding
[Copy 1] 19th century light brown calf half-binding with marbled boards; blue marbled endpapers; gilt top-edge; spine title and "Eton" stamped in gold on spine.
Binding
[Copy 2] 19th century brown leather half binding; dark green cloth boards; gilt spine title "Eton reform 1860-61".
Binding
[Copy 3] 19th century gilt-ruled brown calf half binding ; marbled paper boards; gilt-tooled spine with spine title "Paterfamilias & Eton reform 1860"; marbled endpapers; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge. Binder's notes in pencil on final page of final item in volume.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Bound with seven other 19th century Etoniana items. Copy contains extensive ms. annotations and corrections to the text. Article is followed one page first edition? of William Mackpeace Thackeray's "Philip : chapter VI : Brandon's" on p. 270 of the same issue of the magazine.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Annotations, corrections and marks of emphasis throughout.
Subject
Trollope, Anthony, 1815 - 1882 Framley parsonage.
Added entry--name
Manley Sims, F. former owner.
Added entry--name
Higgins, Matthew James, 1810 - 1868 former owner.
Added entry--name
Norton, C. B. Adderley (Charles Bowyer Adderley), 1814 - 1905 Baron former owner.
Added entry--name
Smith, Elder & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England Eton.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B44153