the book, 1991, number 161 of 300 specially-bound copies, signed by the artist, editor and 22 contributors, edited by Stephen Spender, on vellum-backed boards, spine titled in gilt, edited by Stephen Spender, number 161 of 300 specially-bound copies signed by the artist, editor and 22 contributors , colour plates, original vellum-backed boards, spine titled in gilt, t.e.g., board slip-case with paper label on upper cover, 4to , 1991. The signatories are Doris Lessing, Seamus Heaney, William Boyd, Douglas Adams, Margaret Drabble, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis, Craig Raine, William Golding, Kazuo Ishiguro, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Iris Murdoch, Nigel Nicolson, V.S. Pritchett, Erica Jong, Susan Sontag, Paul Theroux, Joyce Carol Oates, John Julius Norwich, John Updike, Norman Mailer and Ian McEwan.