Marlborough : his life and times by the Right Honourable Winston S. Churchill.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Woodstock 1874 - London 1965)
Category
Books
Date
1933 - 1938
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3223073
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v. plates : ill., ports.; 8vo. (23cm). Imperfect: vols. 2-3 only. Provenance: Vol. 2 is inscribed "To Charlie from Winston Oct. 21 1934"; vol. 3 is inscribed "Charlie from Winston October 1936". Vol. 2 also has twentieth-century armorial bookplate showing Vane-Tempest-Stewart arms marshalled with Chaplin, motto "Metuenda corolla draconis, with two supporters, all underneath a marquess's coronet with helmet and griffin passant crest, flanked by two badges, lettered in banner "Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry KG"[i.e. Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (1878-1949)]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full purple cloth, gilt armorial centre-piece on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt-tops. Spines faded.
Makers and roles
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Woodstock 1874 - London 1965)