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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Lord Randolph Churchill. London: Macmillan and Co., 1906.
2 volumes. 8o. Half-titles, frontispiece photo portrait of Lord Randolph Churchill. Illustrated with tipped-in facsimiles. Half-morocco marbled boards, spine gilt, marbled edges (upper hinges cracked). Provenance: Reginald Earle Welby (1832-1915) (inscription).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, signed and inscribed "To Lord Welby from Winston S. Churchill 1 Jan. 1906." Churchill's masterful biography of his father is more than an exercise in filial piety or a defense of Lord Randolph's provocative stand on Home Rule. It is a superb political history of the late Victorian era, told with verve and keen insight into the motives of the major players. A career civil servant, Welby was permanent secretary to the Treasury and president of the Royal Statistical Society. Woods A8(a). (2)
2 volumes. 8o. Half-titles, frontispiece photo portrait of Lord Randolph Churchill. Illustrated with tipped-in facsimiles. Half-morocco marbled boards, spine gilt, marbled edges (upper hinges cracked). Provenance: Reginald Earle Welby (1832-1915) (inscription).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, signed and inscribed "To Lord Welby from Winston S. Churchill 1 Jan. 1906." Churchill's masterful biography of his father is more than an exercise in filial piety or a defense of Lord Randolph's provocative stand on Home Rule. It is a superb political history of the late Victorian era, told with verve and keen insight into the motives of the major players. A career civil servant, Welby was permanent secretary to the Treasury and president of the Royal Statistical Society. Woods A8(a). (2)