Shelfmark
Em.8.04
Author
Title
Recollection of some particulars in the life of the late William Shenstone, Esq. : in a series of letters from an intimate friend of his to ---- ----, Esq. F.R.S..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall., M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]
Physical description
viii, 195, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Note
An intimate friend = Richard Graves.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Title vignette.
Note
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-N⁸ O².
Citation/references note
ESTC, T92463
Provenance
Late 19th- or early 20th-century armorial bookplate of Major General Villiers Hatton on upper pastedown; Eton College School Library bookplate on facing flyleaf, recording Hatton's donation.
Provenance
Eton College School Library catalogue card, loosely inserted; previous shelfmarks also on upper flyleaf verso.
Binding
Late 18th- or early 19th-century speckled brown calf with imitation diced effect over millboard, sewn on three recessed supports; rebacked? On both covers, an outer border of single gilt fillets; wide squares, the board edges tooled with a gilt dotted roll, the turn-ins with a gilt arrowhead-shaped roll. Spine smooth and rounded, divided into six panels by transverse gilt fillets (thin-thick-thin); panels with a gilt foliate cartouche, the second and fourth with gilt titling ("Works of Shenstone") and vol. numbers respectively; ?false endbands of alternating red, green, and white thread. Textblock trimmed and sprinked red and green. Endpapers comprising a bifolium of grey card (pastedown and flyleaf) and plain wove paper (flyleaves).
Copy-specific note
Binding identical to Em.8.01 - 03; vol. numbers of spine continuous.
Subject
Added entry--name
Dodsley, James, 1724 - 1797 publisher.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 former owner, donor.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50955