A history of Eton College (1440-1910) / by Sir H. C. Maxwell Ltye ... ; with illustrations.
Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte (1848-1940)
Category
Books
Date
1911
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3111942
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv, 627, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill., ports. (some col.) ; 8vo. Pencil notes and price on front free endpaper verso: "655 H28", "fine copy" and "25/-". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front free endpaper verso: "F / Park Close. / February 1937" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century teal calf; double gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'History of Eton College' and 'Maxwell Lyte'; gilt rolled board edges; blind rolled turn-ins; marbled textblock and endpapers.
Makers and roles
Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte (1848-1940), author