A Roll of Honour of the Battle of Britain 10 July - 31 October 1940, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 80 copies, signed by Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh at end of Foreword, printed in Air Force blue on rectos only, title in blue and gold, stitched but unbound, uncut, folio, printed by the Rampant Lions Press of Cambridge, 1980. *** Commissioned to commemorate the 40th anniversary of The Battle of Britain; unfortunately not in the finished binding of original gilt-tooled blue morocco by Morrell which was issued at £1000. It is known that 12 copies in the secondary or non-issued binding were signed in ink by Prince Philip on the Foreword but not allocated a number on the colophon. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Winston Churchill
A Roll of Honour of the Battle of Britain 10 July - 31 October 1940, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 80 copies, signed by Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh at end of Foreword, printed in Air Force blue on rectos only, title in blue and gold, stitched but unbound, uncut, folio, printed by the Rampant Lions Press of Cambridge, 1980. *** Commissioned to commemorate the 40th anniversary of The Battle of Britain; unfortunately not in the finished binding of original gilt-tooled blue morocco by Morrell which was issued at £1000. It is known that 12 copies in the secondary or non-issued binding were signed in ink by Prince Philip on the Foreword but not allocated a number on the colophon. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Winston Churchill
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