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Secret session speeches: PB 11-2014

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Secret session speeches

Maker(s)

Churchill, Winston Spencer
Compiler: Eade, Charles
Publisher: Cassell & Co. Ltd.

Categories

Description

"Presented by Winston Churchill 1948" - inscription on fly leaf

Contents: The fall of France. June 20, 1940. -- Parliament in the air raids. September 17, 1940. -- The battle of the Atlantic. June 25, 1941. -- The fall of Singapore. April 23, 1942. -- Admiral Darlan and the North Africa landings. December 10, 1942.

96 pages: facsimile, plates, portraits ; 22 cm

Place(s) associated

  • London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2014) by Churchill, Winston Spencer

Dating

Production date: AD 1946

Note

"This edition of Darkfire has been designed and composed electronically by Susan Colberg. The prints by Sean Caulfield and corresponding poems by Jonathan Hart were created through a collaborative process. The images were developed on intaglio plates using mezzotint, etching and chine collé. The Spill and Cup include some hand tinting with acrylic ink and Black Wind has a layer of digital printing. The typeface used is Dante, designed by Giovanni Mardersteig, and the type was printed from polymer plates. The images are printed on Somerset, Gampi and Honen and the texts on Somerset. Sean Caulfield printed the images and texts with the technical assistance of Steven Dixon (letterpress), Marc Siegner (digital printing) and graduate students in the printmaking program at the University of Alberta." --colophon. Unbound sheets in a Japanese silk case. Limited ed. of 5 copies of which the Museum has no 4.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Illustrations

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Chine collé
Printing
Mezzotint

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 11-2014
Primary reference Number: 222740
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Thursday 26 October 2017 Updated: Thursday 26 October 2017 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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