A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES. The Birth of Britain; The New World; The Age of Revolution; The Great Democracies.

First editions, first printings. Complete in four volumes. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrappers. Top-edge red. A near fine set, the bindings square and firm, with light rubbing to the spine ends and corners, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with a small booksellers label to the bottom right corner of the front pastedown of volumes I, II and IV and a neat ownership inscription to top right corner of the front free endpaper of volume I, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrappers, with uniform light toning to the spines, volume I with a short closed tear to the upper spine fold. Not price-clipped (30s. net to the front flaps). An attractive set of first editions.

"For his new work, [...], Sir Winston Churchill has taken as his subject this great element in world history: The English-Speaking Peoples [...], the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today". (Woods A138a; Cohen A267.1a)