MEMORIALS OF OLD BOYS AND MASTERS OF THE DRAGON SCHOOL, OXFORD WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR.
Pp. [188], mounted coloured frontispiece and 1 plate, both with tissue guard, the school crest printed in printed in navy & yellow at centre of title page, plus numerous black & white photographic portraits (many full page), list of name and dates of their death; demy 4to; navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt& blind, the cloth a trifle flecked, edges occasional slightly bruised; t.e.g.; free endpapers offset, both tissue guards lightly creased, a little light foxing; printed for the Dragon School at the Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1922.First edition. *Biographies and portraits of 83 former students and staff. The Dragon School, founded in 1877, was originally named the Preparatory School, or Lynam's Preparatory School. It was started by a committee of Oxford dons, to provide a high standard of education for children of professors of the University of Oxford. The two coloured plates are by Leonard Campbell Taylor (1874 - 1969), a former student of the school. During the First World War Taylor served as an official war artist, first with the infantry, and later the Royal Navy. Item #132258
Price: $350.00