The history of the colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow and Rugby, and the free-school of Christ's Hospital.
William Combe (1742-1823).
Category
Books
Date
1816
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3247491
Summary
Bibliographic description
vi, [2], 56, 72, 27, [1], 32, 34, 22, 40, 34, 43, [1] p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. (col.) ; fol. Plate 23 (Westminster School Room): masters are wearing caps. Booksellers' pencil codes on rear free endpaper. Provenance: Nineteenth-century printed booklabel: 'Revd. R. Shearman Hulbert'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half dark green morocco, green embossed cloth over boards; lettered direct (gilt tooled) on upper board and spine: 'The public schools'; gilt tooled spine; sewn onto five recessed cords; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Combe (1742-1823)., author Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834) , publisher William Henry Pyne (London 1769/70 – London 1843), author