1923 Fp

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Medium 8^o: 8¾" × 5¾", top edge only trimmed, white laid, Glaslan France; 18(+1·5)pt. Garamond; inserted wove leaf in [1] bears photogravure of portrait bust of Abraham Lincoln; casing, grey mottled paper, on upper cover in a gold-blocked impression, a red laid paper label 2⅝" × 2⅞" printed: ‘[within a decorative rule, in italic script] A New | Pilgrimage’

An account of the unveiling 29/Oct/1923 of a bust of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) sculpted by G. D. MacDougall, and placed permanently in the Mirror Room (now the Lincoln Room) of the Savoy Hotel, London, at a banquet honouring T.P. O'Connor, Father of the House of Commons, donor of the bust, on his 75th birthday. It was unveiled by the Marquis Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., Foreign Secretary, whose speech was broadcast on 2LO, See the B.B.C. web-site at (http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a6ee092477e2471486aecda8cc0e877f). Sir Edward Maufe, architect, had charge of re-modellimg the room. Curwen had earlier (1920) done commercial printing for the Savoy Hotel Simon 1973 p.144.

• Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess, 1859–1925 Hansard NPG ODNB
• Garamond
• Garamond, 18pt.
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865 IMDb NPG
• Maufe, Edward, Sir, 1883–1974 NPG ODNB
• O'Connor, T. P. (Thomas Power), 1848–1929 Hansard NPG ODNB