Author: Sir Edward Creasy
Title: Memoirs of Eminent Etonians
Description: London, Chatto and Windus, 1876. Leather. Edward S. Creasy's illustrated biography on noted Etonians with a history of the famous college, in a full calf prize binding. 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. 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. Good . Ill.: None stated. Good .

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