Facsimile Marsh Sir Edward Compiler (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Eton: The Provost and Fellows, Eton College, 1990., 1990
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Add to basketTwo volumes in a slipcase, designed by Humphrey Stone, introduced by John Julius Norwich and edited by Michael Meredith (former Eton College Librarian). Copy number '534' of an edition limited to 636 copies of which 600 were numbered 1-600, and 26 were signed special copies bound in full leather. Both volumes are bound in quarte…r brown leather over grey paper covered boards by The Fine Bindery, Wellingborough, top edges gilt. The facsimile volume was reproduced and printed by Adrian Lack at The Senecio Press, Charlbury on acid free Arjomari Rivoli paper. Both volumes are 12mo., 188 x 135 mm. Facsimile volume, pp. [board illustrated cover with card on verso] [4] 165 numbered pages [11, including a six page index]. Introduction volume, pp. [1-4] 5-45 [blank] [colophon] [blank]. Printed paper label to spine of grey paper covered slipcase. Two volumes in Fine condition in a Very Good slipcase with some surface rubbing and fading of the paper covering. A facsimile of a 'sixpenny-notebook' presented to Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953, and sometime private secretary to Winston Churchill) by Lady Diana Manners at Christmas 1911. Marsh decided "to ask all the poets I knew to copy out in it a poem apiece"; it includes contributions from Lascelles Abercrombie, Sir James Barrie, Hilaire Belloc, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, James Elroy Flecker, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, T. E. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Willam Butler Yeats and eighty-six others.
