Cloth. 19 cm (OCT) (Brown private binding, with a gilt coat of arms of King's College, Cambridge, on the frontcover. This type of the College's coat of arms is not in the "British Armorial Bindings' database of the University of Toronto. This database has 2 other types. On the front flyleaf a paper label, with an erased name, below which is written 'Christ Church, Oxford'. Under this label lies hidden the name 'Julian H.L. Lambart'. This is Julian Lambart, Eton Master, who was a friend of the British prime-minister Harold MacMillan, and is introduced in the biography of John le Carré as follows: 'The party dragged on, and many of those present became tipsy. David had taken against one of the masters, the punctilious Julian Lambart, a man steeped in Eton, depicted by colleagues as 'an amazing relic', who had been pompous from an early age'. (A. Sisman, 'John le Carré: The Biography', London, New York 2015, p. 179). He is remembered in a biography of the British politician Jeremy Thorpe like this: 'Jeremy's own housemaster was another eccentric bachelor, though not one possessing the reputation of harbouring romantic feelings toward boys in his care. Julian Lambart, known as 'Leggy' (from his middle name Legge) was fifty in 1943 and had been running his house for almost 20 years. He was an old-maidish character, absorbed in the classics and a lifelong study of cathedral architecture, endlessly fussing about rules but easily deceived'. (M. Bloch, 'Jeremy Thorpe', London 2014) Lambart ended his career as Vice-Provost of Eton. Eton College is a sister institution to King's College, Cambridge. As 'Lombard', the Eton master features in David Rowlands' 'The Codex' (Mystery for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O'Mara 1990)) (Cover worn at the extremities; occasional faint pencil marginalia, written in a hand one would expect from a punctilious man)