ETONIAN ANNOTATIONS BY GLADSTONE’S NEPHEW - The Medea of Euripides

Exuberant Eton-annotated copy owned by a member of the Gladstone clan, mostly likely John Robert Gladstone (1852-1926), son of Sir Thomas Gladstone (the P.M.’s elder brother). An interleaved copy previously owned and annotated by Eton College schoolboy John Ewart Gladstone in 1866/1867.

Front endpapers inscribed ‘Gladstone Joynes’ Eton College 1866/1867. Collections. Summerhall. Division VII’. Academic annotations combine alongside lively doodles, handwriting and mark making throughout. Contains:

John Henry and James Parker: Oxford, 1865. The Medea of Euripides. 75 pp. Small octavo volume annotated in pencil throughout leaves 12 - 39 plus 38 bound in additional larger leaves inserted between the printed pages and annotated from leaf 9 onwards.

Several members of the Gladstone family were Eton-educated during the 1860s and another candidate for our annotator is William Ewart Gladstone’s yongest son, Herbert John (1854-1930) though he seems a little young for Division VII at Eton by 1867.