Lot Essay
The printed dedication reads: "This volume of Julius Caesar's Commentaries is dedicated by the Editor to Winston Churchill who also had difficulties to surmount."
Details
CAESAR, Caius Julius. Commentaries. A Modern Rendering by Somerset de Chair, London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1951, 4°, limited to 320 copies signed by Somerset de Chair and Clifford Webb, this one of 70 specially bound, wood-engraved frontispiece, vignettes and head-pieces by Clifford Webb, original morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., slipcase. [Cock-a-Hoop 188]