Vaughan E L Compiler (2 results)

[Memorial] FIRST (and only) EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.282, decorated by Graily Hewitt and reproduced by Emery Walker. With twelve-page sewn loose insert. Bound in publisher's line-backed paper-covered boards with printed paper label to spine and upper, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Contents clean, binding a little handled and worn, spine toned. A privately printed list of the Etonians who fought and lost their lives in the First World War. This copy is from the comprehensive Ian Fleming bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert; of note to him was the entry for Major Valentine Fleming, MP, DSO, father of writers Peter and Ian Fleming. Gilbert, p.642. …

ngfe3081{fonttbl{fromanfprq2fcharset0 Garamond;}{fnilfcharset0 Garamond;}} {*generator Riched20 10.0.20348}{*mmathPrmnaryLim0mdispDef1mwrapIndent1440 }viewkind4uc1 dbfs24 Vaughan (E. L.) Compiler. LIST OF ETONIANS WHO FOUGHT IN THE GREAT WAR MCMXIV-MCMXIX. Pp. xii+284(last colophon, verso blank), mostly printed in red & black, full page black & white decoration designed by Graily Hewitt and reproduced by Emery Walker, appendix; tall cr. 4to; qr. canvas over blue/grey papered boards, with printed paper title labels on upper board and spine, plus spare label tipped-in at end, the boards slightly soiled and worn, with a couple of edge bruises, upper joint starting to split, spine label slightly chipped and board label lightly foxed, a couple of small damp stains near foot of spine; t.e.g., others uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, inked Latin inscription of earlier owner (R. Parry Okeden, dated 1921) on the upper free endpaper, the free endpapers slightly offset, hinges starting, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; privately printed for Eton College in the Riccardi Press fount by Philip Lee Warner, Medici Society, London, 1921. *With 3 loose inserts: corrections (3 pp., printed in red & black); Eton War list ('names to be added .', 2pp.); list of 'the places where the 1031 Etonians whose deaths are attributable to enemy action, were killed or received a fatal wound' (12 pp., printed in red & black, stabbed & tied). Richard Parry Okeden (1900-1978) was an English-born, Eton-educated Australian businessman who became chairman and managing director of John Lysaght (Australia) Ltd. in 1946. …