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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
Publisher: The Educational Book Company Ltd., 1956–58
Stock code: 72334
Price: £3,500 Currency Conversion
Chartwell Edition, the first illustrated edition of this work, "published simultaneously in Britain on a subscription basis." (Woods) . This set signed and dated in 1959 on the half-title of volume I by Churchill. Churchill's history of the two branches of the English-speaking nations – the British Empire and the United States – was begun during his "Wilderness Years" in the early 1930s, but not completed until after his retirement from the political stage in the late 1950s. The events of the Second World War, the major interruption in the writing process, had reconfirmed his belief in the "Special Relationship," consequently he gave considerable attention to the key events of American history, around a quarter of the third volume, "The Age of Revolution", is dedicated to the American War of Independence, and a full third of the final volume, "The Great Democracies" contains a detailed study of the American Civil War. It is unusual to find signed copies of the Chartwell editions.
4 volumes. Octavo. original blue cloth, red morocco title labels and triple fillet panels gilt to the spines, volume titles, volume titles and plain rule gilt to the upper boards, dark blue top-stain. With plates, diagrams and tables throughout. Spines a little sunned and spotted, labels a touch rubbed, endpapers with light foxing, as also the fore-edge, but overall a very good set.
