ART REFERENCE – BRITISH MUSEUM. Treasures for the Nation: Conserving our Heritage. [London: 1988]. Full blue morocco lettered in gilt, gilt edges. Presentation label reading: “Presented to the Prime Minister … on the occasion of her opening the Treasures of the Nation Exhibition at the British Museum” -- Fuhrmann, F. Salzburg in alten Ansichten: Das Land. [Salzburg: 1980]. Full calf lettered in blind. Number 7 of 100 de luxe copies. Typed presentation note “For Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from Provincial Governor Katschthaler”. Another loosely inserted memorandum to the Prime Minister suggests the year of presentation was 1989 when she was on holiday in Austria -- Josefowitz, Tanya (author and illustrator). Capinero: a Bird. [Lausanne: 1992]. Presentation copy, front free endpaper inscribed “11 August 92 To a great lady … I sing my admiration!” and with the artist’s original drawing of a bird – Kerr, Rose (editor). The T.T. Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art: Chinese Art and Design. [London]: Victoria and Albert Museum, [1991]. Half-tile inscribed “Dear Lady Margaret Thatcher, with best wishes!,” signed by Tsui in both Chinese and English characters, and dated 1.4.95 --Linley, D. Classical Furniture. [New York: 1993]. Presentation copy, half title inscribed “To Lady Thatcher with best wishes and in great admiration from David Linley” – Major, Norma. Chequers: The Prime Minister’s Country House and Its History. [London: 1996]. Presentation copy, half title inscribed: “To Margaret and Denis with best wishes Norma Major September 1996” – National Gallery. Illustrated General Catalogue. London: 1973. Blue calf gilt. Presented to Margaret Thatcher on her opening “of the Gallery’s newly air-conditioned rooms, 21 October 1980” -- Russian Silver of the Fourteenth to Early 20th Centuries from the Moscow Kremlin Reserves. Moscow: 1984. Text in Russian and English. Inscription to Margaret Thatcher in Russian on front free endpaper -- Sherman, L. Owanto. [Barcelona: 2002]. Half-title inscribed: “I truly enjoyed meeting you Owanto” -- The Silver Trust. [London: 1994?]. Note by Rupert Hambro, August 1994, thanking Lady Thatcher for her “kind patronage” and “giving such enormous support during the early days of our endeavours” -- Stone, R. Notable Portraits. [London? 2004]. Presentation copy, title inscribed “To Lady Thatcher – with every good wish Richard Stone”. The exhibition catalogue includes portraits of Baroness Thatcher on pp. 28-29 -- Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Tokyo. [Tokyo: 1990]. Original quarter morocco. Introductory leaf inscribed to Margaret Thatcher by Governor Suzuki Shunichi -- Twitchett, J. Derby Porcelain. London: [1980]. Original blue morocco, gilt edges; blue cloth slipcase. Number 4 of 150 copies, signed by John Twitchett. Further signed and inscribed by John Willet “July 1980 With great respect and personal admiration to Royal Crown Derby’s Favourite Collector from its Chairman” – Vermeersch, V. Bruges and the Sea from Bryggia to Zeebrugge. Antwerp: [1982]. Half-title inscribed “Presented to Mrs Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister of Great Britain as a lasting souvenir of her visit to Bruges on the occasion of the opening of the Academic Year of the College of Europe, September 20 1988, Frank van Acker Burgomaster, Minister of State.”

With a further 20 volumes of art reference, most with either informal or formal gift inscriptions to Margaret Thatcher.

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