Eton. [Blunt (Walter, editor)] & [Praed (Winthrop Mackwo...

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£50 - £100

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Eton. [Blunt (Walter, editor)] & [Praed (Winthrop Mackworth, editor)], The Etonian, three-volume set, third edition, London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1823, contemporary black-stained quarter-calf over marbled boards, rubbed, 12mo, The Eton Calendar for 1842, Eton: E.P. Williams, 1842, steel-engraved frontispiece of the college chapel, some contemporary MS annotation, original publisher's printed and pictorial limp cloth over card, indistinct ownership inscription, 8vo in 4s, A List of Eton College, Taken at Election, 1842. Eton: Printed and Sold by E.P. Williams, n.d., letterpress-printed, some contemporary pencil annotation, original wrappers, the same indistinct ownership inscription as the latter, 8vo in 4s, [&] a late 18th/early 19th c manuscript on biblical history, [42]ff transcript synopsis and verse of J. Fellows' interpretation, ?an Eton beak, some leaves inscribed recto or verso only, contemporary calf gilt, split and rubbed, 8vo, (6)  

Provenance: 1st: 1) William Hughes, contemporary ink MS ownership inscriptions. 2) Coker Court, [?Somerset], 19th c crested bookplates to each pastedown.

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Auction Date: 15th Aug 2023 at 10am

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