Kff.3.26
Sub-Lieutenant R. C. Brooke, Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division.
[Rugby : printed for Rugby School by Philip Lee Warner, (O.R.), of the Medici Society, Ltd., 1916]
[8] p. : port. ; 28 cm.
Cover title.
Separate issue of memorial tribute to Rupert Brooke from: Memorials of Rugbeians who fell in the Great War, vol. 1, deaths 23 Aug 1914 - 9 May 1915, printed for private circulation.
Imprint taken from published volume.
Includes excerpt of tribute by Winston Churchill printed in The Times, 26 April 1915 (as W.S.C.).
Unpaginated: pp. [1-3, 8] blank; photographic portrait of Brooke tipped onto p. [5].
Sewn in blue paper wrapper; printed title on front cover and printer statement on back cover.
From the collection of Howard Moseley (?).
Upper cover inscribed in red ink "Rugby School".
Lot 333 in Bloomsbury Book Auctions catalogue of printed books, letters and manuscripts ... 12 January 1995; accompanied by marked up copy of the catalogue.
Medici Society printer.
England London.
B51940