Shelfmark
MS 337
Title
Epistolarum fasciculus a pluribus viris egregiis scriptarum Roberto Needham Cust adhuc alumno Etonensi per dolum satis innocentem extrahente A.S. MDCCCXXXV-MDCCCXXXVII pie tot annos conservatus nunc a filius eius Roberto Henrico Hobart Cust ipso Etonensi in memoriam patris dilecti intra bibliothecam scholae Etonensis deponitur A.S. MCMXXV.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1822-1839.
Physical description
1 volume (66 leaves) : paper ; 28 x 22 cm.
Note
Album of letters and 'franks' of members of the two Houses of Parliament, mostly collected by Robert Needham Cust as a boy at Eton between 1835 and 1837.
Note
Title from calligraphic title page.
Note
The album was compiled by Robert H. Hobart Cust from franks and letters obtained by his father Robert Needham Cust for his autograph collection while at Eton, and found among his private papers after his death.
Note
Also includes two printed letters dated 16 and 17 June 1904 between R. N. Cust and Edmund Gosse regarding Cust's gift of two volumes of franks of members of both houses of Parliament.
Note
Bound-in article by Robert H. Cust, "The art of collecting autographs: a story of an ingenious hoax", extracted from The Arena (date unknown), with ms. note laid down at end signed "RNC" and dated 3 June [18]95.
Note
Tipped-in ALS from E. C. Hawtrey, Provost of Eton, to R. N. Cust dated 23 December 1857, regarding a gift to College Library (possibly ECL MS 313).
Note
Printed portrait of R. N. Cust laid down inside front cover.
Provenance
Calligraphic title records gift of the album to Eton School Library by the compiler's son, Robert Henry Hobart Cust, in 1925.
Binding
20th century teal morocco; border of gilt fillets over small square onlays of red and black morocco; Eton College arms in gilt-tooled red and black morocco and white vellum onlays on upper cover; Cust's arms in gilt-tooled black morocco and white vellum on lower cover; gilt-tooled turn-ins; gilt edges; binder's stamp of M. Bird.
Subject
Autographs England 19th cenury.
Subject
Autographs Collectors and collecting.
Added entry--name
Cust, Robert Needham, 1821 - 1909 compiler.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Hawtrey, Edward Craven, 1789 - 1862 correspondent.
Added entry--place
England.
Identifier
B47772