Winston S. Churchill – A History of the English-Speaking Peoples – Volumes 1-4 – First UK Editions 1956-58
£450.00
First editions, first printings of ‘A History of the English-Speaking Peoples’. Published by Cassell in London, 1956-1958. [English History]. With occasional in-text maps and plans present. In publisher’s red cloth with gilt titles to spines, top edges red, pictorial dust-jackets priced at 30s (aside from the clipped volume III). The books have some foxing to the text blocks. No inscriptions. Some internal archival repairs to closed tears and spine tips. This is a very good set overall, with some slight wear and rubbing at the edges.
This is the author’s last great work, only available some twenty years after he wrote the first draft, which then lay dormant whilst he attended to National and Parliamentary matters. In his preface he remarks that the book ‘slumbered peacefully’, until 1956, ‘when things had quietened down’. Reading reports of the last decade of his life, one is struck by the central interest this history represented in his final years, and how rapidly he sank into decline and depression after the final volume was published.
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First editions, first printings of ‘A History of the English-Speaking Peoples’. Published by Cassell in London, 1956-1958. [English History]. With occasional in-text maps and plans present. In publisher’s red cloth with gilt titles to spines, top edges red, pictorial dust-jackets priced at 30s (aside from the clipped volume III). The books have some foxing to the text blocks. No inscriptions. Some internal archival repairs to closed tears and spine tips. This is a very good set overall, with some slight wear and rubbing at the edges.
This is the author’s last great work, only available some twenty years after he wrote the first draft, which then lay dormant whilst he attended to National and Parliamentary matters. In his preface he remarks that the book ‘slumbered peacefully’, until 1956, ‘when things had quietened down’. Reading reports of the last decade of his life, one is struck by the central interest this history represented in his final years, and how rapidly he sank into decline and depression after the final volume was published.
