Shelfmark
Kp.4.03
Additional shelfmark
Kp.4.04(02) (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Kp.4.06(07) (Copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Kp.3.49(07) (Copy 4)
Author
Title
Eton reform II.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861.
Physical description
43, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Note
Signed at end: W. J. [i.e. William Johnson Cory], dated April 12, 1861.
Note
The first part, "Eton reform", was published earlier in the same year as a defense of the Etonian system in reply to the criticisms of Matthew James Higgins ("Paterfamilias") and Sir J. T. Coleridge. Cf. DNB, v. 22, p. 488. The second part responded to further letters by "Paterfamilias".
Note
Title page verso and colophon: "London printed by Spottiswoode and Co."
Note
Some copies with errata slip of five lines.
Note
Issued stitched, without wrappers.
Citation/references note
Carter, J. Hand-list of the printed works of William Johnson, afterwards Cory (Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society ; 1, 1949), 7
Provenance
[Copy 1] Inscribed at head of title: "C. Buckland, Drury's [Eton]".
Provenance
[Copy 2] Booklabel of John Carter. Addressed on final page in Cory's hand to "Honble L Stanley, Balliol College, Oxford", and in another hand, "40. Dover Street, Portman Squ[are], London. W." with red postage stamp and Windsor postmark [date illegible]. Note in Carter's hand on front binding leaf: "Part I from Lord Esher (the pencilled initials on the title-page I think in his father R. B. Brett's hand). Part II subsequently from Pickering & Chatto. It has the errata slip. The original address is in Cory's hand".
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.", possibly assembled by Higgins.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Inscribed at head of title "CB Adderley" and 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] Without wrappers; removed from a previous binding.
Binding
[Copy 2] 20th century marbled paper boards ; red goatskin spine label with author, title and date stamped in gilt.
Binding
[Copy 3] 19th century brown leather half binding; dark green cloth boards; gilt spine title "Eton reform 1860-61"; lacking original wrappers.
Binding
[Copy 4] 19th century gilt-ruled brown calf half binding ; marbled paper boards; gilt-tooled spine with spine title "Paterfamilias & Eton reform 1860"; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge. Binder's notes in pencil on final page.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Accompanied by a copy of "Eton reform".
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] With the errata slip. On title page: "by Wm. Johnson". Bound with a copy of "Eton reform."
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Author identified in ms. on title page; errata slip laid down on p. 43.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 4] Errata slip tipped in at start of 'Postscript' (p. [41]).
Subject
Higgins, Matthew James, 1810 - 1868 Second letter from Paterfamilias to the editor of the Cornihill Magazine.
Subject
Higgins, Matthew James, 1810 - 1868 Third letter from Paterfamilias to the editor of the Cornhill Magazine.
Subject
Subject
Endowed public schools (Great Britain) History 19th century.
Subject
Educational change England Eton.
Added entry--name
Buckland, C. T. (Charles Thomas), 1824 - 1894 former owner.
Added entry--name
Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, 1852 - 1930 Viscount former owner.
Added entry--name
Brett, Oliver former owner.
Added entry--name
Carter, John, 1905 - 1975 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
Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts publisher.
Added entry--name
Spottiswoode & Co. printer.
Added entry--name
Pickering & Chatto bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B45369