Shelfmark
MS 56
Title
Mathematics exercise book supposed to have been used by the Duke of Wellington as a boy at Eton.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, ca. 1781-1784?
Physical description
[1], 353 leaves : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note
Devised title.
Note
18th-century handwritten school manual containing rules and exercises in mathematics, geometry, and mensuration.
Note
Additional signatures on verso of preliminary leaf: Wellesley, Palmerston, Wellington.
Note
Believed to have been used by Arthur Wesley, the future Duke of Wellington as a boy at Eton (1781-1784), before he adopted the spelling "Wellesley" in 1798.
Provenance
Verso of preliminary leaf signed: My book A. Wesley, Eton; Wesley, A Wesley E.
Provenance
Leaf 22 signed: Wesley Eton.
Provenance
According to accompanying news cuttings, bought by the poet Samuel Rogers at Christie's in 1853, and descended through the family to the collector Charles Hunter Rogers, who donated it to Eton in 1824.
Provenance
With autograph note from Provost M. R. James on Eton College Provost's Lodge stationery presenting the book to Eton College School Library tipped onto final verso and "dono dedit" bookplate of Eton College School Library dated July 1924.
Provenance
Signature of W. H. Christie, 14 March 1853 laid down on preliminary leaf together with 7 undated news cuttings (19th century); engraved portrait of the Duke of Wellington in an octagonal frame laid down inside front cover.
Binding
Contemporary sheep quarter binding; smooth spine with six compartments formed by gilt fillets; marbled paper boards with paper label on left board lettered in ink "Mornington".
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted autograph note from Mackintosh to the Rev. Dr Parr, Hatton, Warwick postmarked January 1825, relating an anecdote about the Duke of Wellington's resistance to the recognition of the American state.
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted news cuttings depicting the room in which the Duke of Wellington died at Walmer Castle and a marble statue of the late Duke by Noble "just erected at the India House".
Subject
Education, Secondary Great Britain.
Subject
Special education Handbooks, manuals, etc. Great Britain.
Subject
Mathematics Handbooks, manuals, etc. Great Britain.
Added entry--name
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1769 - 1852 Duke of former owner.
Added entry--name
Rogers, Samuel, 1763 - 1855 former owner.
Added entry--name
Rogers, Charles Hunter former owner.
Added entry--name
James, M.R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862 - 1936 associated name.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52959