MS 56
Mathematics exercise book supposed to have been used by the Duke of Wellington as a boy at Eton.
England, ca. 1781-1784?
[1], 353 leaves : ill. ; 24 cm.
Devised title.
18th-century handwritten school manual containing rules and exercises in mathematics, geometry, and mensuration.
Additional signatures on verso of preliminary leaf: Wellesley, Palmerston, Wellington.
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.
Verso of preliminary leaf signed: My book A. Wesley, Eton; Wesley, A Wesley E.
Leaf 22 signed: Wesley Eton.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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".
Education, Secondary Great Britain.
Special education Handbooks, manuals, etc. Great Britain.
Mathematics Handbooks, manuals, etc. Great Britain.
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1769 - 1852 Duke of former owner.
Rogers, Samuel, 1763 - 1855 former owner.
Rogers, Charles Hunter former owner.
James, M.R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862 - 1936 associated name.
Eton College School Library former owner.
England.
eng
B52959