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MINCHIN, H. COTTON, Captain (ed.). The Legion Book. London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1929. 4° (320 x 240mm). Capital initials printed in red, engraved title-vignette by Stephen Gooden, 18 plates printed in various techniques, some on china, many signed, and 32 collotypes. Original white pigskin designed by Charles Ricketts tooled in gilt and blind, original fleece-lined red cloth box (some wear and soiling); custom red morocco-backed case.
THE DELUXE ISSUE. Number 65 of 100 copies in a pigskin binding designed by Ricketts, and signed by Edward Prince of Wales and 89 notable contemporaries including Winston Churchill, P.G. Wodehouse, Jacob Epstein, Rudyard Kipling, Aldous Huxley, Eric Gill, Max Beerbohm, G.K. Chesterton, Augustus John, Paul Nash, Clemenceau, and Heath Robinson. The Legion book was published to raise funds for the British Legion under the patronage of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII. Churchill contributes an article on the recently deceased Douglas Haig. Cf. Woods B12(a).
THE DELUXE ISSUE. Number 65 of 100 copies in a pigskin binding designed by Ricketts, and signed by Edward Prince of Wales and 89 notable contemporaries including Winston Churchill, P.G. Wodehouse, Jacob Epstein, Rudyard Kipling, Aldous Huxley, Eric Gill, Max Beerbohm, G.K. Chesterton, Augustus John, Paul Nash, Clemenceau, and Heath Robinson. The Legion book was published to raise funds for the British Legion under the patronage of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII. Churchill contributes an article on the recently deceased Douglas Haig. Cf. Woods B12(a).