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MS 451 02 02

Reference code

MS 451 02 02

Title

Harold Acton collection: Poems, 1922

Level

File

Administrative / Biographical history

Sir Harold Acton, British author.

Date

1922

Extent & medium

1 volume

Content description

Bound volume of 45 autograph poems, (115 pp.) with an additional poem laid in loose. The poems appear to have been fair copies that were corrected later, and each one carries the date and place where it was written; these start at Eton, continue to Florence, Oxford, Strasbourg, St Moritz and Florence again. Bound in full morocco with blind tooling and a metal clasp.

Provenance

"Presented to Eton College by the embarrassed author, 27 September 1977" - title page
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