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The New "Examen".

by CHURCHILL, Winston S. - PAGET, John.

$1,022 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

London: The Haworth Press,, 1934. First edition with Churchill's introduction, trade issue, handsomely bound. In 1861, the barrister John Paget published The New "Examen" or an inquiry into the evidence relating to certain passages in Lord Macaulay's History. He defended the Duke of Marlborough, Churchill's ancestor, from Macaulay's charge of treachery during the Anglo-Dutch defeat at the Battle of Camaret (1694). Lord Rosebery showed Churchill a copy of the then-obscure work, and he was delighted. Churchill applied Paget's case in his Marlborough (1933-38), much of which aimed to counter Macaulay's entrenched animadversions. Churchill assisted this republication and contributed a seven-page introduction, in which he praised the cogency of Paget's arguments and his literary style. He bemoaned that Paget "was swept aside by the opinion of his time" and hoped that his book can be "rescued from oblivion". There was also a signed limited issue. Octavo (251 x 155 mm). Contemporary reddish-brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, covers tooled with blind circles within concentric gilt panels enclosing gilt squares, top edge gilt, others uncut, gilt turn-ins, grey endpapers. Some minor pencilled annotations. A fine copy. Cohen B53.2, Woods B22. Frederick Woods, Artillery of Words: The Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, 1992.

  • Year: 1934
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: unknown

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