Marlborough: His Life and Times.

£375 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The first two-volume edition of Churchill’s huge life of the first Duke of Marlborough, his ancestor who led allied forces to victory against Louis XIV, originally published in four volumes between 1933 and 1938. A very good copy, early bookplates to front pastedown of both volumes, contents otherwise generally clean, spines slightly darkened.

• Year: 1947

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