School-days of eminent men : or, early lives of celebrated British authors, philosophers, and poets, inventors and discoverers, divines, heroes, statesmen and legislators ; ... /
John Timbs (1801-1875)
Category
Books
Date
1870
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3163965
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 312 p., plates : ill., ports. ; 18 cm. Provenance: inscribed in pencil on first (blank) leaf: Christmas 1939 Nigel, from Single[?]. With school prize book label, partly printed: Christ’s College. Finchley, N. Midsummer; inscribed in ink: “[18]73 | 1st [prize] (aggregate) First Form | [awarded to] F. Single. Edwin Johnson M.A. Acting Head Master.” Binding: nineteenth-century calf; with gold-tooled spine and borders; marbled endpapers; gold lettered green spine-label: Eminent men | Timbs.
Makers and roles
John Timbs (1801-1875)