Published 1974 AD. A matching set of all thirty-eight volumes, including the four Collected Essays, published by The Library of Imperial History to celebrate the centenary of his birth and comprising the entire collected works; each bound in full natural vellum with gilt spines and page edges, printed on archival paper, illustrated, each with green armorial slipcase; the volumes housed in the original wooden two-shelved and pedimented bookcase bearing an inscribed brass Certification plate and arms to front, the set numbered 212 of 1750 actually issued (edition originally intended to run to 3000 copies) and with commissioning labels for all 38 volumes (that for volume 1 with typed name of L. T. Groves) and prospectus for the four Essays volumes. Cohen A286 Woods/ICS A146(b), Langworth p.355. 64 kg total, case 91.5cm wide (36"). Property of an Essex lady; acquired by inheritance. This is the only full set of Churchill's collected works ever to be published; his books are only otherwise obtainable piecemeal as single titles from the various different copyright-holding publishers; the set was issued in 1974 at a price of $2500 (equal to $13000 today) plus an additional $100 for the Collected Essays. From Richard M. Langworth: 'The specifications were titanic: five million words in 19000 pages, weighing 119lbs, taking up 5.5ft of shelf space. To achieve publication, 11 publishing houses in Great Britain, the United States and Canada released their individual copyrights in exchange for the promise that no other complete edition of Churchill works would be published until the expiration of international copyright and Cohen: 'The Library of Imperial History went bankrupt before the projected run of 3000 sets could be completed, so the print run never exceeded 2000 copies and only 1750 sets were ever published.' Fine condition; some colour variation to spines, as usual, internally pristine.
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