Item 1 - Geoffrey Winthrop Young, Wall and Roof Climbing

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Add. MS a/773/1

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Geoffrey Winthrop Young, Wall and Roof Climbing

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  • 1905 (Creation)

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1 vol., pp. 109. Printed and typed material pasted in; some MS annotations.

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Published by Eton College and Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd. Credited to 'the Author of The Roof-Climber's Guide To Trinity'.

Young has written 'My Copy' on the front cover, and his bookplate is pasted to the inside front cover, along with a typed quotation from a letter from John Ruskin to Effie Gray. On the opposite page are pasted a typed quotation from Stephen Gosson, School of Abus and two newspaper cuttings, one from the Times, 29 Apr. 1942 re ‘Roof-Alpinism’ as part of fire-watching at Oxford, and another undated entitled ‘Royal Roof Climbers’ re a visit by the King and Queen to the roof of St George's Chapel, Windsor, during restorations. An MS quotation from Mrs Gamp [Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit] is also written out on this page. MS quotations from Webster, Waugh and the Anglo Saxon Chronicle written out on the first back endpaper, facing the colophon.

Several MS corrections and annotations, in both pencil and ink, added throughout the printed text.

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      Another copy in Trinity College Library at LL 986 Y 101.

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