A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

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The spines of Volume III and IV are very slightly creased, but the bindings are all otherwise square and tight and the contents fine. Includes a page from the January 30th, 1965 editoin of the Financial Times with an article by Alan Hodge entitledThe Churchill Family and the State.

Raised bands with panels displaying lion and gate details as well as label lettering in gilt tooling.

Finely bound by Bayntun in three-quarter blue morocco over cloth boards, with gilt to spines, gilt top-edges, blue endpapers. Prior to this however was the brilliance in the plan of King James I and the creation of the full English reading bible – for the time and with no copy ability and next to nothing of a British Postal Service; the Committees located at Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster (comprised of 50+ scholars and divines. There were publisher presentation sets of the first edition, so noted on the copyright pages, but such sets were not specially bound. This final of Churchill's great, multi-volume works spawned many single-volume spinoffs in the form of excerpted works that have become collectible in their own right. He was clearly satisfied with the result, remarking with pardonable exuberance, "It opens like an angel's wings" (Gilbert, Volume VIII, p.

The interruption continued as Churchill bent his literary efforts to his six-volume history, The Second World War, and then his remaining political energies to his second and final premiership from 1951-1955. Moving onto the history of Napoleon and the naval wars that ensued I came away with a new form of admiration made greater for Admiral Horatio Nelson and Sir Arthur Wellesley. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.S. first edition, there was also a Canadian Book-of-the-Month Club issue similar in style to the Canadian first edition, but bound instead in red cloth with blue spine panels and no head and foot bands. This book ends with the last three chapters; one of which is entitled “Washington, Adams, and Jefferson”, “The War of 1812”; and, the last chapter of book 9, chapter 24 entitled “Elba and Waterloo. The book was such an eye opening read for me, bringing together subjects and events I had heard about throughout my life, but didn’t ‘know’ about. In his book “Reflections of the French Revolution” by Edmund Burke – he reflects upon the differences of the English and French Revolutions.