The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire.
The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire. The Register of the names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 War and have no known Grave. The East Africa Memorial Nairobi. Part I [-Part II].
Photographic frontispiece and a map.
Two parts bound together. 4to. [265 x 202 x 12 mm]. xix, [i ], 99, [1] pp. Bound by Roger Powell in 1956 (signed in blind on the rear turn-in) in scarlet oasis goatskin, the covers lettered in gilt and with the dates encircled by a repeated impression of a flower-head. Smooth spine lettered upwards in gilt, plain endleaves, top edge sprinkled. (The front cover slightly marked, the edges a little foxed).
London: By Order of the The Imperial War Graves Commission, 1955.
This is one of a number of bindings undertaken by Roger Powell for the Imperial War Graves Commission. He bound two copies of the East Africa Memorial, both in scarlet oasis, and gave it a job number 405. His work book indicates that "P.F." spent 35 hours on the job, and Powell himself four. They charged their time out at £19.10.0, the materials cost £2.0.0., and they added £5.7.6 (for the design?), making a total of £26.17.6. They then invoiced the Commission for £27.10. Not an inconsiderable sum. But the binding does display some of Powell's characteristic features - French joints, a reliance on lettering for decoration and plain endleaves.
Booklabel of Humphrey Winterton.
Stock no. ebc3026
The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire. The Register of the names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 War and have no known Grave. The East Africa Memorial Nairobi. Part I [-Part II].
Photographic frontispiece and a map.
Two parts bound together. 4to. [265 x 202 x 12 mm]. xix, [i ], 99, [1] pp. Bound by Roger Powell in 1956 (signed in blind on the rear turn-in) in scarlet oasis goatskin, the covers lettered in gilt and with the dates encircled by a repeated impression of a flower-head. Smooth spine lettered upwards in gilt, plain endleaves, top edge sprinkled. (The front cover slightly marked, the edges a little foxed).
London: By Order of the The Imperial War Graves Commission, 1955.
This is one of a number of bindings undertaken by Roger Powell for the Imperial War Graves Commission. He bound two copies of the East Africa Memorial, both in scarlet oasis, and gave it a job number 405. His work book indicates that "P.F." spent 35 hours on the job, and Powell himself four. They charged their time out at £19.10.0, the materials cost £2.0.0., and they added £5.7.6 (for the design?), making a total of £26.17.6. They then invoiced the Commission for £27.10. Not an inconsiderable sum. But the binding does display some of Powell's characteristic features - French joints, a reliance on lettering for decoration and plain endleaves.
Booklabel of Humphrey Winterton.
Stock no. ebc3026
The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire. The Register of the names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 War and have no known Grave. The East Africa Memorial Nairobi. Part I [-Part II].
Photographic frontispiece and a map.
Two parts bound together. 4to. [265 x 202 x 12 mm]. xix, [i ], 99, [1] pp. Bound by Roger Powell in 1956 (signed in blind on the rear turn-in) in scarlet oasis goatskin, the covers lettered in gilt and with the dates encircled by a repeated impression of a flower-head. Smooth spine lettered upwards in gilt, plain endleaves, top edge sprinkled. (The front cover slightly marked, the edges a little foxed).
London: By Order of the The Imperial War Graves Commission, 1955.
This is one of a number of bindings undertaken by Roger Powell for the Imperial War Graves Commission. He bound two copies of the East Africa Memorial, both in scarlet oasis, and gave it a job number 405. His work book indicates that "P.F." spent 35 hours on the job, and Powell himself four. They charged their time out at £19.10.0, the materials cost £2.0.0., and they added £5.7.6 (for the design?), making a total of £26.17.6. They then invoiced the Commission for £27.10. Not an inconsiderable sum. But the binding does display some of Powell's characteristic features - French joints, a reliance on lettering for decoration and plain endleaves.
Booklabel of Humphrey Winterton.
Stock no. ebc3026