My Early Life: A Roving Commission.

COSWAY-STYLE BINDING - CHURCHILL, Winston S.

Published by London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930

About this Item

First edition, in a handsome Cosway-style binding executed for the British luxury purveyors, Asprey, of Churchill's only volume of sustained autobiography, covering his formative years from his birth in 1874 until his election as MP for Oldham in 1900. Overall, it gives a "witty and elegiac account of his youth shot through with regret at the decline of the social and imperial order in which he had grown up" (ODNB). Cohen A91.1; Woods A37(a). Andrew Roberts, Churchill, 2019. Octavo (208 x 134 mm). Half-tone frontispiece, 15 plates, folding map, maps to text. Cosway-style binding, late 20th-century red morocco by Bayntun-Riviere for Asprey, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, hand-coloured miniature of Churchill under glass to front cover, gilt facsimile signature to rear cover, gilt border to covers, gilt turn-ins, red silk endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in Asprey's red cloth slipcase. Joints repaired, light foxing to contents, slipcase a little rubbed. A very good copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Early Life: A Roving Commission.
• Publisher: London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930
• Edition: 1st Edition