Shelfmark
Nf.5.21 - Nf.5.25 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Nf.1a.40 - Nf.1a.41 (copy 2)
Author
Title
The world crisis / by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...
Edition
2nd ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Thornton Butterworth, ..., 1923-31.
Physical description
6 v. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note
Publisher's navy blue cloth case binding with gilt spine titles and blind-stamped cover titles.
Formatted contents note
Vol. 1: 1911-1914 -- Vol. 2: 1915 -- Vol. 3: 1916-18 (Part 1) -- Vol. 4: 1916-1918 (Part 2) -- Vol. 5: The aftermath -- Vol. 6: The Eastern front.
Provenance
Copy 1: Presented to Eton College by Eugen Millington-Drake in 1938.
Provenance
Copy 2: Inscribed by the author to R. Nevill Dundas, 7 March 2027.
Provenance
Copy 2: With tipped-in ALS from Churchill to Major Boothby requesting that the book be passed to his uncle [R. N. Dundas]. Churchill had just read Dundas's memoir of his son Henry Dundas, who fell in the final months of the war.
Binding
Copy 1: Brown leather half-binding over marbled paper covered boards; gilt lettering on spine; gilt top edge; bound by Best & Co.
Binding
Copy 2: Publisher's binding.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: At request of Eugen Millington-Drake, signed in ms. by author on front endpaper of vols. 1, 2, 3 and 6.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Previous shelfmark: 204.22 - 204.25.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Incomplete: ECL holds vols. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 only; copy of vol. 6 has incorrect vol. number (5) on spine.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Vols 3-4 only.
Subject
World War, 1914-1918.
Subject
World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain.
Added entry--name
Thornton Butterworth Ltd. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B33718