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CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Marlborough, His Life and Times. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1933.
4 vols, 4o, half titles, frontispiece portraits, folding maps and other plates. Dark blue levant morocco, gilt, covers with Marlborough's crowned monogram in center of front covers, circular motto of Order of the Garter in each corner, spine gilt in six compartments, t.e.g., others uncut, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, in two morocco tipped protective boxes (spines very slightly darkened). Woods A40(a). FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 19 OF 150 COPIES of this special signed trade edition, most of which was bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in orange morocco gilt. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the colophon leaf of vol. 1.
Written in the "Wilderness Years," he began chronicling the life of this famous ancestor in 1929 and completed it in 1938, the year of the Munich crises. Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, says of Marlborough: "It is his greatest work of history, Lord Randolph being the runner up. As usual he had a case to make. It might be described as Marlborough versus Macaulay. He wished to vindicate his ancestor against charges of avarice, careerism and treachery to both James II and William III."
4 vols, 4o, half titles, frontispiece portraits, folding maps and other plates. Dark blue levant morocco, gilt, covers with Marlborough's crowned monogram in center of front covers, circular motto of Order of the Garter in each corner, spine gilt in six compartments, t.e.g., others uncut, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, in two morocco tipped protective boxes (spines very slightly darkened). Woods A40(a). FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 19 OF 150 COPIES of this special signed trade edition, most of which was bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in orange morocco gilt. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the colophon leaf of vol. 1.
Written in the "Wilderness Years," he began chronicling the life of this famous ancestor in 1929 and completed it in 1938, the year of the Munich crises. Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, says of Marlborough: "It is his greatest work of history, Lord Randolph being the runner up. As usual he had a case to make. It might be described as Marlborough versus Macaulay. He wished to vindicate his ancestor against charges of avarice, careerism and treachery to both James II and William III."