CHURCHILL | The People's Rights, 1910

CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON

The People's Rights. Hodder and Stoughton, 1910

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN WRAPPERS with index and one appendix, FIRST STATE, with p.71 mis-numbered "1", original orange-yellow coated wrappers pictorially printed in black and blue, in a collector's box

"All issues of The People's Rights are extremely scarce" (Cohen). This collection of campaign speeches was printed and cheaply after the Liberal success in the General Election of December 1909 - hence the delicate condition of the few surviving copies. Churchill stood as a member of the Liberal Government and the title is a reference to Lloyd George's controversial and important "People's Budget" of 1909. 

LITERATURE:

Cohen A31.2.a; Woods A16a

PROVENANCE:

John K. Powell (book label on half-title)