Two Volume Set Poetical Works of John Dryden. Rev. George Gilfillan

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Book Description: James Nichol, Edinburgh, 1857. Leather Gold Gilded Marbled. Book Condition: Very Good to near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The leather is excellent gold gilded floral on spine with title in gold. pages beautifully marbleized. Inscription. Two bookplates.

Association: The presenter, recipient and then final recipient of this set have connections to English peerage as well as 19th. century commerce, cricket, and Eton.

The inscription in Vol. 1, in black ink pen, says “Henry Whitaker Maitland from his friend & schoolfellow Henry F. Howard On his leaving Eton Xmas 1861.”

The book must have been passed on. The nameplate on the marbleized inside front cover is that of Maitland. Another nameplate across from it is of Ernest Money Wigram.

Presenter Henry F. Howard turns out to be Sir Henry Francis Howard (1809 to 1898). Howard was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath (G.C.B.). He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of St. Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.).

Of recipient Henry Whitaker Maitland, other than the presumption from the inscription that he was at Eton in 1861, there is no record online. His family of that era, from London and Essex, were nobles and prominent conservative political figures. One Rev. William Whitaker Maitland according to records, was lord of the manor house in Loughton, Essex in 1865. His son, J. Whitaker Maitland (d. 1903), did also. Perhaps Henry is the son of one of these men.

Wigram, (1862-1906), according to records, was a top cricket champion in his youth with the Orleans Club, and, judging from his age, was one of the sons of the owner of the Money Wigram shipping and ship builder firm, famous for its clipper ships. The bookplate, in fact, shows a four-masted clipper ship with the Latin phrase beneath it, dulci amor patriae (“Sweet is the love for one’s country”).

Item ID: RL 34595