MARLBOROUGH HIS LIFE & TIMES BY WINSTON CHURCHILL 1966 IN TWO VOLUMES
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[CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.]. Marlborough: His Life and Times. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1966.
Reprint; in two volumes (complete); cloth-bound; hardcovers; thick octavos (22cm x 14.5cm); pp. 1050; 1078; English text; bound in publisher's original burgundy cloth; spines gilt; Duke of Marlborough's armorial crest gilt to upper covers; top page edges tinted red; initial and terminal blanks plus half-titles present; both volumes illustrated with numerous maps, plans, facsimile documents and letters; with a bibliography, appendix and index in double columns to the rear of each volume; vol. 1: includes sections on Ashe House, The Jovial Times, Arms, Marriage, Sedgemoor, The Invasion, King James's Memoirs, The Tower, the Grand Alliance, The Sunshine Day, The Tory Ferment, Trepanning an Army, The Conquering Hero, The Unfought Waterloo, and The Mortified Adventurer, etc., etc.; vol. 2, includes: The Whig Approach, The War in Spain, The Year of Victory, Abigail, The Morrow of Success, The Home Front, and The Winter Struggle, The Whigs and Peace, Tournai, Mortifications, Dissolution, General Only, Ne Plus Ultra, Exile, At Blenheim Palace, etc., etc., and an index. Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings tight, secure and square; some minor splash marks to covers; the interiors fresh, clean and without previous ownership markings; dust jackets complete, with light browning to spines and trivial edge wear. Scarce thus.
Note: This a reprint of the two-volume edition which is an entirely new setting (not merely a rearrangement) of the original four-volume edition of 1933-34. It is unabridged and retains all the maps and plans of the first edition, but the illustrations are reduced. Included are 2 portrait frontispieces, 14 facsimiles and 196 maps and plans (a number double-page) in the text. Marlborough His Life and Times is a panegyric biography written by Winston Churchill about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Churchill was a lineal descendant of the duke. Churchill had conceived the idea of writing the book by 1929, when the conservative defeat in the general election meant that he was no longer a government minister. A wonderful set in original dust jackets.
