Edward Marsh's Little Book
first edition hardcover
1990 · Eton
by MARSH, Edward
Eton, 1990. Limited. hardcover. fine. Reproduced in facsimile. Intro. by John Julius Norwich. Edited by Michael Meredith. 2 vols., small 8vo, leather-backed boards, slipcase with paper spine label. Eton, 1990. Limited Edition. Fine. Fine facsimile of a notebook, given in 1911 by Lady Diana Cooper to Edward Marsh (Churchill's secretary) who had the inspiration of asking "all the poets I Knew to copy out in it a poem apiece." The 170 pages include poems by Beerbohm, Chesterton, Graves, Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, Edith Wharton, Yeats & many others. One of 600 copies. (Inventory #: 116269)