Printed Books & Manuscripts, Autographs & Documents, Maps & Prints, The Bookbindery of Faith Shannon (APR21) Wed, 7th Apr 2021 Lot 203

Estimate: £100 - £150 + Fees Edward VIII (1894-1972). A visitors' book Edward VIII (1894-1972). King of the January – December 1936. A visitors' book, seemingly associated with the Training Ship Exmouth, containing over 200 signatures by various individuals, many of them associated with the , dating from July 1926 to February 1943, including Edward, Prince of Wales (the first signatory, from a Prize-giving Day on 6th July 1926), Sir William Goodenough (1867-1945, Admiral of ), Viscount Doneraile (1866-1941), Binnie Hale (1899-1984, Actress), Sasha (1892-1953, Alexander Stewart; Photographer), William Bridgeman (1864-1935, 1st Viscount Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty 1924-29), Eric Fullerton (1878-1962, Admiral), Sir Sidney Meyrick (1879- 1973, Admiral), Sydney (1885-1965, Actor, the elder half-brother of Charles Chaplin. Sydney Chaplin had previously served on the T S Exmouth), Aubrey Chaplin (first cousin of Charles Chaplin), Mrs. L. E. Chaplin (presumably the wife of Aubrey), Princess Vera Constantinova of Russia (1906-2001, Great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I and a childhood playmate of the younger children of Tsar Nicholas II), Princess Xenia Shakhovsky (1902-1981, Wife of Count Mikhail Tolstoy-Miloslavsky from 1922-36), George Riddell (1865-1934, 1st Baron Riddell, Solicitor and newspaper proprietor who represented the British press barons at the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I), Sir John Kelly (1871-1936, Admiral of the Fleet; two signatures), Sir Algernon Willis (1889-1976, Admiral of the Fleet who saw action at the ; nine signatures), Thomas Goff (1867-1949, Politician, great-grandson of King William IV), Henry Parker (Vice Admiral, Admiral Commanding Reserves 1931-33), Masa Matsudaira (daughter of Tsuneo Matsudaira (1877-1949) Japanese diplomat, Ambassador to Britain 1929-35; Masa’s sister, Setsuko, became Princess Chichibu and sister-in-law of Hirohito), Sir (1877-1943, Admiral of the Fleet), Herbert Disney Vaughan-Hughes (1893-1962, Fleet Navigating Officer, Home Fleet, 1932) and many others including a number of signatures of Margaret Kerr, wife of Ralph Kerr (1891-1941, Captain, died whilst in command of HMS Hood when it was sunk during the Battle of the Denmark Strait in 1941), their daughter Jane and son, Russell, a tank commander who was killed while fighting in Burma in 1945, a few leaves loose, all edges gilt, original morocco, slightly rubbed, oblong small folio (18 x 23cm) Qty: 1