Author: Winston S. Churchill
Title: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
Description: London, The Educational Book Company Ltd, 1956-1958. Cloth. A smart complete 'Chartwell' edition of Winston Churchill's popular history of Britain, published the same year as the firsts. The first printings of the "Chartwell" Edition, being the first illustration edition published simultaneously with the more widely accessible Cassell first editions. Complete in four volumes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth, with red spine title labels.'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples' offers a broad history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world. Churchill began this work during the early 1930s, but did not complete it until after his final retirement as prime minister in 1956-1958, delayed several times by war and his work on other texts.Across the volumes he covers from Caesar's invasions up to the end of the Second Boer War. With twenty-four plates to volumes I-III, thirty-two plates to volume IV, and numerous in-text illustrations to each. Collated, complete.Volume I - 'The Birth of Britain'Volume II - 'The New World'Volume III - 'The Age of Revolution'Volume IV - 'The Great Democracies' Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth. Externally, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities and some marks and dusting to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with a few scattered spots to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: Winston Churchill A History of the English Speaking Peoples Chartwell Edition Illustrated A History of the English Speaking Peoples Not Stated
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Title: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
Description: London, The Educational Book Company Ltd, 1956-1958. Cloth. A smart complete 'Chartwell' edition of Winston Churchill's popular history of Britain, published the same year as the firsts. The first printings of the "Chartwell" Edition, being the first illustration edition published simultaneously with the more widely accessible Cassell first editions. Complete in four volumes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth, with red spine title labels.'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples' offers a broad history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world. Churchill began this work during the early 1930s, but did not complete it until after his final retirement as prime minister in 1956-1958, delayed several times by war and his work on other texts.Across the volumes he covers from Caesar's invasions up to the end of the Second Boer War. With twenty-four plates to volumes I-III, thirty-two plates to volume IV, and numerous in-text illustrations to each. Collated, complete.Volume I - 'The Birth of Britain'Volume II - 'The New World'Volume III - 'The Age of Revolution'Volume IV - 'The Great Democracies' Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth. Externally, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities and some marks and dusting to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with a few scattered spots to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: Winston Churchill A History of the English Speaking Peoples Chartwell Edition Illustrated A History of the English Speaking Peoples Not Stated
Price: GBP 190.00 = appr. US$ 271.32 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 948Y20
- Book number: 948Y20
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