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Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition. Previous owner inscription [1910] to fep. 320mm x 260mm (13" x 10"). xviii, 232pp + plates. 30 tipped-in colour plates. With heraldic bookplate of Edmund George Coryton. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. Light grey hardback cloth cover.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Arthur Garratt (illustrator). An interesting and beautifully presented anthology of prose and verse about Eton College. Featuring 30 hand tipped coloured plates with captioned guards, reproduced from paintings by Arthur Garratt and Eton portraits, including a frontispiece of King Henry VI. There is an inscription to the front free-endpaper reading: 'L.H. Vassall from A.C. Rayner-Wood. Eton. Dec 12th 1917'. A.C. Rayner-Wood appears to have been an Eton housemaster. He fought in the First World War, and was the author of 'Twenty Years After: The Letters of an Eton Housemaster' (published 1939). In a cloth binding, with a gilt Eton crest to each board. Externally, bumped, with some marks. Spine darkened, with slight loss to the top and tail. Internally, generally firmly bound, though with some spotting and occasional handling marks, becoming prominent to the first and last few pages. Very Good. book.

Large hardback, approx 12.5 x 10 ins. Full vellum bound hardback with gilt lettering to spine, and decoration to boards. Top edges gilt, Pages rough cut. In very good condition. Some darkening and handling marks to cover, a couple of surface chips to edges of front board, and small chip to rear edge nr bottom of spine. Ribbon fastening lost. Some minor darkening to prelims. Inside pages very clean and tight throughout. No penned inscriptions. Plates clean and bright. Else a very clean and tight copy. 230pp. Illustrated with 30 mounted Colour plates, with tissue guards. Limited Edition, Numbered and Signed, 102/125, by Hodder and Stoughton.