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DescriptionChurchill and others—James Henry Cotton Minchin, editor
The Legion Book. London: privately printed by the Curwen Press, 1929
NUMBER 84 OF 100 COPIES, SIGNED BY ALL CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDING WINSTON CHURCHILL  4to (318 x 236mm.), 5 pages of contributors' signatures, additional signatures on leaves facing collotypes No.3 and No.20, 32 collotype illustrations, further in-text illustrations, publishers' pigskin gilt, designed by Charles Ricketts, top edge gilt, others uncut, brown cloth box, upper cover lightly stained at extremities
This lavishly produced volume, printed by the Curwen Press, is signed by all the artists and authors who contributed, including Winston Churchill P.G. Wodehouse, Eric Gill Stanley Spencer Charles Ricketts, W. Heath Robinson, Laura Knight (once beneath her original etching "Girl Reading"), William Nicholson Paul Nash David Low Rebecca West, John Lavery Max Beerbohm Vita Sackville-West Hillaire Belloc, Mark Gertler Edith Sitwell, Jacob Epstein W.H. Davies, Aldous Huxley, and others.
PROVENANCE:Bonhams 23 March 2004, lot 29Condition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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