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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.

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Rogers, Charles Hunter former owner.

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England.

Language code

eng

Identifier

B52959
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