The note-books of Samuel Butler . author of "Erewhon". Selections arranged and edited by Henry Festing Jones. With photogravure portrait by Emery Walker from a photograph taken by Alfred Cathie in 1898.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Category
Books
Date
1912
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065533
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii,438,[6]p.,plate . port.. . 8vo.. Copious MS. notes in GO Trevelyan's hand. Numerous dates of reading, incl. on final page: March 24 1914 ('I have read this book during my illness and recovery in February and March 1914. It is unique and all readable except Sections III to VI inclusive, as far as page 87); June 6 1915; May 26 1918; Dec. 30 1922; Dec 5 1925: 'At this last reading in 1925 the man has fairly taken me by storm. ... he is a writer of whom I never tire'.. Provenance: MS. on flyleaf: GO Trevelyan Nov 22 1912. Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Blue publisher's cloth.
Makers and roles
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Henry Festing Jones (1851-1928)