Winston Churchill | 'Why I am a free trader', Coming Men on Coming Questions, 1905

Winston Churchill

'Why I am a free trader' in Coming Men on Coming Questions, edited by W.T. Stead. London: Review of Reviews office, 1905

8vo, manuscript summary of contents, halftone photographic portrait of Churchill on original wrapper, "Why I am a free trader" pamphlet pp. 6-22, bound with 25 further pamphlets, together 476pp with 25 leaves of plates, contemporary buckram, wear to joints and edges, small black mark to upper cover

Bound with 25 further political pamphlets, Churchill's was the first of the series. Described as "a brief character sketch of a coming man, with his latest portrait, and a statement of his views upon a leading question of the day."

The series of pamphlets was later issued in book form, but this volume is a collection of the original pamphlets in their wrappers.

LITERATURE:

Cohen A15

PROVENANCE:

John W. Spleen, ownership inscription