first edition Leather bound
1958 · London
by Churchill, Sir Winston S.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1958. First. Leather bound. VG+ with the lightest of wear, one cover corner shows the lightest wear-through. Uniformly bound in 3/4 dark blue leather with finely woven light-blue cloth covers (spines have turned greeenish from light exposure). 5-raised bands, gilt tooling to bands and compartments, gilt titles and date at base of spines. Top edges are gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. A very attractive set, Volume 1 is 1/8" shorter than volumes 2-4, as printed. With occassional maps and illustrations. A truly lovely presentation of this 4-volume set of first editions, handsomely bound in Bath, England by Bayntun Riviere (Vols. 1+3) and Bayntun (Vols. 2+4) . Volumes 1+2 first published in 1956, Volume 3 in 1957 and Volume 4 in 1958. Individual volume titles: I: The Birth of Britain. II: Renaissance and Reformation. III: The Age of Revolution. IV: The Great Democracies.
(Inventory #: 172320)