Shelfmark
Ie10.5.13
Author
Title
Poems and letters / by Thomas Gray.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : printed at the Chiswick Press, 1863.
Physical description
xvi, 415 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Note
With half-title
Note
"Mr. Thomas Gray. By the Hon. Horace Walpole", p. [xiii]-xvi
Provenance
William Heneage Legge's Eton College leaving book.
Provenance
Ms. presentation inscription from 1869, "hunc librum Guilielius Heneage Vice Comiti de Lewisham dd. Jacobus J. Hornby IVt. Kal. Sextiles", within a printed border and text, "Etonae MDCCC.LX.[IX]".
Provenance
Printed bookplate recording the donation to Eton College Library by Joseph Burrell in 1983.
Provenance
Company label of Myers & Co. pasted inside front cover.
Binding
19th century dark brown leather; triple fillet gilt border; gilt devices stamped in corner; five raised bands; gilt decoration on spine; title stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; gilt edges; fore-edge painting; bound by Riviere.
Copy-specific note
Ms. notes on end leaf: "From the library of the Earl of Dartmouth. The volume was originally an Eton College [ ... ] presented to Viscount Lewisham (son), heir to the Earl of Dartmouth"; "Bound by Riviere. With fore-edge painting of Windsor Castle & Eton College. Fore-edge painting".
Subject
Added entry--name
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Added entry--name
Legge, William Heneage, 1651 - 1936 Earl of Dartmouth, former owner.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
A. N. Myers & Co. bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B44801