SUMMARY
Edward S. Creasy's illustrated biography on noted Etonians with a history of the famous college, in a full calf prize binding.
Illustrated,Leather Binding,Original Binding,Prize Binding
Overall Condition: Good
This book weighs 0.75 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
A new edition. First published in 1850.
Illustrated with a monochrome engraved frontispiece and twelve monochrome engraved plates. Collated complete.
Bound in a full calf prize binding for 'Eastbourne College' with their gilt crest to the front.
This collection of memoirs was compiled and written by Edward Shephard Creasy, an English historian and jurist. The work discusses noted figures that were educated at Eton College, where he himself was educated, and provides a history on the college through memoirs dating back to the fifteenth century all the way up to the nineteenth.
CONDITION
Bound in a full calf prize binding for 'Eastbourne College' with their gilt crest to the front. Externally generally smart with fading to the spine, slight marks to the boards, marks and rubbing to the spine and marks and rubbing to the rear board. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound with clean and lightly age toned pages. Closed to to pp. 163.
Overall Condition: Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
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Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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