Lot 151
Edward VIII as Prince of Wales
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 May 2011 at 12:00 BST
Description
The Legion book. London: Privately printed, 1929. 4to, limited to 100 copies, all for presentation by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, this copy inscribed to George, Earl Haig, also signed on specially bound in blank leaves by artists and authors including Humbert Wolfe, Stanley Spencer, Eric Ravilious, W. Rothenstein, Eric Gill, Eric Dagliesh, J.C. Squire, Laura Knight, John Galsworthy, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Bridges, A.E. Coppard, W. Walcot, Edward Bawden, Bernard Partridge, Edmund Blunden, T. Hamilton Lawford, C. Ricketts, William Orpen, Laurence Binyon, W. Heath Robinson, John Nash, James McBey, P.G. Wodehouse, David Low, A.K. Lawrence, Muirhead Bone, H.C. McNeile, Winifred Austen, Eric H. Kennington, Augustus John, Paul Nash, Albert Rutherston, Winston Churchill, William Nicholson, Sheila Kaye-Smith, David Robertson, George Clausen, Frank Short, Mark Gertler, Henry Newbolt, John Drinkwater, D. Llewellyn, D.Y. Cameron, John Lavery, Gilbert Murray, Margaret Kennedy, Hugh Walpole, G.K. Chesterton, V. Sackville-West, Strube, Max Beerbohm, Rebecca West, David Garnett, Jacob Epstein, Stephen Gooden, Clare Leighton, W.H. Davies, Charles Lamb, Bliss Carman, Aldous Huxley, Walter de la Mare, Edith Sitwell, Edgar Wallace, Arnold Bennett, Sarah Gertrude Millin; plates, some signed by the artist, elaborate white blind-stamped and gilt pigskin designed by Charles Ricketts and bound by Wood of London, folding cloth box