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Third edition (first 1976), the copy of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, inscribed to her on the title page "To Margaret, On your birthday, we wish you a very healthy & contented year. Emmanuel, Elizabeth. 13th October 1988". The giver was Sir Emmanuel Kaye (1914-1999) and his wife. Kaye was a British industrialist and philanthropist, and was then a strong supporter of the Conservative Party, later switching to Labour. Thatcher displayed her private collection of porcelain outside her Downing Street flat. She recounted in her autobiography: "Denis and I felt that good painting - and there was no point in hanging bad ones - were just too expensive. Instead, I began to collect porcelain. Porcelain dishes on the walls and figures in display cabinets provided our rooms with plenty of colour, and somehow the purchase of individual pieces always seemed less of an extravagance. I bought my first pieces of Crown Derby at Frinton when we were visiting my sister Muriel and her husband on their farm" (Path to Power, p. 104). The book remained in the possession of Thatcher until her death, afterwards dispersed in her estate sale at Christie's, 2015. Her posthumous bookplate is mounted to the front pastedown. Small folio. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. A little rubbed, near-fine.

First edition, first impression, the copy of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, signed for her by both the authors, and Royal Crown Derby's chairman John Bellak. Thatcher displayed her private collection of porcelain outside her Downing Street flat. She recounted in her autobiography: "Denis and I felt that good painting - and there was no point in hanging bad ones - were just too expensive. Instead, I began to collect porcelain. Porcelain dishes on the walls and figures in display cabinets provided our rooms with plenty of colour, and somehow the purchase of individual pieces always seemed less of an extravagance. I bought my first pieces of Crown Derby at Frinton when we were visiting my sister Muriel and her husband on their farm" (Path to Power, p. 104). The book remained in the possession of Thatcher until her death, afterwards dispersed in her estate sale at Christie's, 2015. Her posthumous bookplate is mounted to the front pastedown. Small folio. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Soiled and worn, still a sound copy.