4 volumes. (8vo) 23.5x15 cm (9¼x6"), later three-quarter blue morocco and cloth, spines gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt bound by Bayntun. First Editions.
Churchill's masterful history of the development and influence of Anglo cultures in the West. Sir Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values". Woods A138(a).