Fasti Etonenses : a biographical history of Eton ... / by Arthur Christopher Benson ...
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925)
Category
Books
Date
1899
Materials
Place of origin
Eton
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3253673
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 536 p., plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. (23 cm). Pencil numbers and price on front free endpaper verso: "16/1", "237" and "15/6". Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper verso: "Guy Buxton / on his leaving Eton / from / R.C. Radcliffe / Ap. 1906." 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: Early twentieth-century full black morocco; single blind fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto four recessed cords; five false bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Fasti Etonenses' and 'A.C. Benson'; gilt rolled board edges; gilt fillets and roll on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Spottiswode & Co. Ltd. Binders.'.
Makers and roles
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925), author