The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill: A Sketchbook by Charles Mozley.

MOZLEY, Charles. With a Tribute by the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies [Winston S. Churchill].

Item Number: 139727

London: George Rainbird, 1965.

First edition of the artist’s tribute to the great man who himself enjoyed painting and earned a high reputation in the field. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 32 sketches by Charles Mozley. Signed by the artist on the half-title page in the year of publication, “Charles Mozley ’65.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase. Rare signed.

In this stunning tribute to one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, Charles Mozley has caught in bold strokes and vivid colors over thirty different aspects of the State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill - the mounted drums, the family mourning, the arrivals at the steps of St. Paul's, the procession into the Cathedral of the Royal Family and of the Parliamentary and Church dignitaries, the readings in the Cathedral, and many others.