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Kp.5.35
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Kp.5.36 (Copy 2)
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Kp.5.37 (Copy 3)
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Kp.5.38 (Copy 4)
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Kp.5.39 (Copy 5)
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Kp.5.40 (Copy 6)
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Kp.5.41 (Copy 7)
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Kp.5.35a (Copy 1a)
Author
Title
Ionica.
Edition
Second edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London and Orpington : George Allen, 1891.
Physical description
viii, 209, [3] p. ; 18 cm.
Note
Second, completely reset edition of the first collected edition published in the same year.
Note
This edition also issued in a large paper issue omitting the edition statement.
Note
Printer statement on final leaf: Printed by Ballantyne Hanson & Co. London and Edinburgh.
Note
In this edition the titles are in italic roman type.
Note
Publisher's light blue cloth binding with blind fillet border ; title and publisher blocked in gilt on spine with gilt bands at head and foot. Carter notes 3 binding variants: (a) title and publisher on spine; (b) in a slightly darker shade with author's name "W. Cory M.A." added on spine; (c) as previous with addition of title on front cover. See Carter, J. Handlist, p. 84 and Addenda and corrigenda. p. 320.
Citation/references note
Carter, J. Hand-list of the printed works of William Johnson, afterwards Cory (Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society ; 1, 1949), 21
Citation/references note
Carter, J. Addenda and corrigenda to 'A hand-list of the printed works of William Johnson, afterwards Cory' (Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society ; IV.4, 1967), p. 320
Provenance
[Copy 1] Inscription to Blanche I. Johnston from [unread], Xmas 1891. Identified in a curatorial note as the daughter of one of Cory's pupils who visited him at Halsdon in 1877, to whom the book was given by her fiancé.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Inscription to "Margaret Stone from the brother of the author [Charles Wellington Furse], in memory of June 11 / June 16 1892" [i.e. the date of Cory's death and ?funeral]. Booklabel of John Carter and explanatory note in Carter's hand: "Second collected edition presented by Charles Wellington Furse to my mother".
Provenance
[Copy 3] Ownership inscription of M. J. Rendall, Winchester College. Identified in annotated copy of Carter's Hand-list as Montagu [sic] Rendall, head master of Winchester. Booklabel of John Carter.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Inscription to "Barbara [Drummond], Christmas 1899", initialled "AHD" i.e. Algernon Heneage Drummond, composer of the Eton Boating Song. Presented with ECL copy 2 of the first collected edition by Mortimer Drummond (grandson of A. H. Drummond) in February 1975, with accompanying materials identifying Barbara as A. H. Drummond's eldest daughter.
Provenance
[Copy 5] Red and black booklabel of Eton College Library with note recording gift from Geoffrey Madan.
Provenance
[Copy 6] Inscription to "Maurice Baring from ACB" i.e. A. C. Benson, dated Eton, December 1891. Bookplate of Maurice Baring. Booklabel of John Carter.
Provenance
[Copy 7] Inscription to Christopher Reynolds Stone from "HEL" identifed in a note in John Carter's hand as CRS's tutor Henry Elford Luxmoore, dated Eton, Election [struck through and corrected to] Easter 1899, with motto "honoris causa". Pictorial bookplate of Christopher Stone. Booklabel of Wiston Old Rectory.
Provenance
[Copy 1a] Stamp on front flyleaf: "Luxmoore Eton".
Binding
[Copies 1, 1a and 2] Publisher's binding, variant (a).
Binding
[Copy 3] Publisher's binding, variant (b) with author's name on spine but lacking cover title.
Binding
[Copies 4 and 5] Publisher's binding, variant (c) with author's name on spine and title on front cover.
Binding
[Copy 6] Late 19th century green morocco ; blind-tooled single fillet border ; five raised bands ; gilt spine title ; marbled endpapers ; wide turn-ins with gilt-ruled borders ; gilt fore-edges.
Binding
[Copy 7] Late 19th century brown morocco ; blind-tooled single fillet border ; five raised bands ; gilt spine title ; marbled endpapers ; gilt turn-ins ; gilt fore-edges.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Loosely inserted sheet with text of poem "To the infallible" (printed in the 1858 edition of "Ionica" but omitted from the 1891 editions) transcribed in pencil in an unidentified hand.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 4] Notes and corrections in ink made by Barbara Drummond "from my father's copy ... Said notes my father took from the author's own copy in the author's handwriting. The red ink ones are my father's remarks." Transcription on endpapers of the Eton Boating Song with caption "Done in bed Jan. 8. 1863" and red ink note that the words were "set to music by self & Evelyn Wodehouse & published at Olliver's. 1872."
Copy-specific note
[Copy 5] Unopened after p. 32.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 7] Loosely inserted letter from Christopher Stone as a young boy to "Frank", describing a visit to Canterbury, with note giving date November 1888.
Added entry--name
Carter, John, 1905 - 1975 former owner.
Added entry--name
Furse, Charles Wellington, 1868 - 1904 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Drummond, Algernon. inscriber.
Added entry--name
Madan, Geoffrey, 1895 - 1947 donor.
Added entry--name
Baring, Maurice, 1874 - 1945 former owner.
Added entry--name
Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862 - 1925 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Stone, Christopher, 1882 - 1965 former owner.
Added entry--name
Luxmoore, Henry Elford, 1841 - 1926 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Rendall, M. J. (Montague John), 1862 - 1950 former owner.
Added entry--name
Johnston, Blanche I. former owner.
Added entry--name
George Allen publisher.
Added entry--name
Ballantyne, Hanson and Co. printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
England Orpington.
Added entry--place
Scotland Edinburgh.
Identifier
B45310