ETON - R. A. AUSTEN-LEIGH (1872-1961). Bygone Eton, Eton, 1912, 4to, 47 mounted plates, original cream buckram. Inscribed, "Robert Anthony Eden on leaving Eton from E.L.C. in token of much regard, Midsummer 1915." With 4 other related books. (5)

ETON - Richard Arthur AUSTEN-LEIGH  (1872-1961).  Bygone Eton being a Collection of Historical Views of the Buildings at Eton College with Descriptive Notes ... Second Re-Issue. Eton: Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd., 1912. Folio (368 x 270mm). Half title, 47 mounted plates. Original cream buckram, spine gilt with black lettering-piece, top edges gilt, others uncut (some light staining). The front free endpaper is inscribed, "Robert Anthony Eden on leaving Eton from E.L.C. in token of much regard, Midsummer 1915." We have been unable to establish for certain the identity of "E.L.C." (initials which also appear in a book presented to Eden when he was at Eton in lot 86) although it could be E. L. Churchill, the co-author of the final book in this lot. With 4 other books of related interest, namely Virgil's Opera (London, 1912, 4to, original green-stained armorial vellum, Eton College presentation leaf with woodcut border inscribed to "R. Anthony Eden" by "E. Lyttelton" and dated 1915 inserted at the front, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), List of Etonians who Fought in the Great War MCMIV-MCMXIX (London, 1921, 4to, printed in red and black, with the names of those killed in action printed in red, original hessian-backed paper boards, recording Anthony Eden's older brother John's death on p.81, directly above his own name [see illustration], with various associated supplements loosely-inserted), Thomas Gray's Poems (London, 1935, contemporary armorial vellum gilt, Eton College presentation leaf with woodcut border inscribed to "Simoni Gascoigne Eden" [Anthony Eden's son, killed in action in Burma in 1945] by "Claudius Aurelius Elliott" and dated 1942 inserted at the front) and L. S. R. Byrne & E. L. Churchill's The Eton Book of the River with Some Account of the Thames and the Evolution of Boat-Racing (Eton, 1935, 4to, plates, original tan buckram gilt, old armorial bookplate of Sir Gervase Beckett, Baronet). (5)