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The Eagle: A Magazine Supported by Members of St. John's College Vols. XII-XVI
Members of St. John's College
1883-1891
W. Metcalfe and Sons : Cambridge
8.5" by 5.5"
iv, 380, [26]; iv, 389, [22]; iv, 420, [26]; viii, 528, [15], 2-80, [24]; viii, 6112, [35]pp
SUMMARY
Five smart volumes of this annual periodical review of St. John's College, Cambridge, in a uniform institutional cloth binding.
Rebound
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 2 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
Containing a collection of five scarce volumes from The Eagle, an annual review of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Uniformly rebound in a presentation red cloth for the Cambridge Free Library.
With presentation bookplates dated 1909 to the front pastedowns.
Comprising Volumes XII-XVI. With a frontispiece to Vol. XIV and XVI, and one further plate to XVI.
Each volume has the bound in list of subscribers to the rear of each work, as well as the issues' original front covers. With an 1891 library presentation bookplate tipped in to the verso of the Index title page to Vol. XV.
The poet Thomas Ashe founded The Eagle in the year in which he graduated from St John's, with the help of a college fellow, Joseph Bickersteth Mayor. Henry George Hart and Robert Forsyth Scott were later editors of the magazine.
With historical discussions of Cambridge life, notes from the College's records, lists of the founders and benefactors, and a chronicle to each volume detailing the latest events and announcements.
CONDITION
Uniformly rebound in a presentation red cloth for the Cambridge Free Library. With the College's emblem stamped in gilt to the front boards. Externally, smart, with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities and fading to the boards of Vols XII-XIV. With marks to the boards of Vol. XIV. Fading to the spines and adhered with library labels, most of which are sunned or rubbed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with occasional scattered spots, with heaviest instances to the first and last few leaves of Vol XII.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
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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