The Plate of Eton College
London: Saint Catherine Press, 1938. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 33/350. Folio. xxi, 71 (1)pp., (i) xxxi plates, Original blue cloth with gilt-stamped lettering and emblem on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Blue endpapers. Frontispiece. Exhaustive treatise of the wide variety of Eton Plate tableware with a history of the holdings at Eton College. Profusely illustrated with 32 high quality offset reproductions of the collection, including frontispiece. Tipped onto the blue free front endpaper a two page handwritten letter to an unnamed Duke on Welbeck Woodhouse Worksop letterhead. Ex-Libris of William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland, pasted to inside front cover. Fore- and bottom edge uncut. Spine somewhat sunned. Minor wear along edges and age toning. Overall in very good condition. vg. Item #43922
Price: $350.00