The Earl of Birkenhead [Frederick Smith] — Frederick Edwin Earl of Birkenhead

London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 1933-1935. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition two volume set of this biographical work on Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead. Complete in two volumes. First edition. The First Phase is illustrated with a colour frontispiece and twenty images across nineteen plates. The Last Phase is illustrated with a frontispiece and thirteen images across eleven plates. Collated complete. A biographical account of Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, a British Conservative politician and barrister who attained high office in the early twentieth century as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. He is best remembered today as Winston Churchill's greatest personal and political friend. Written by his son Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead, a British biographer and Member of the House of Lords best known for writing a biography of Rudyard Kipling that was suppressed by the Kipling family for many years. With a foreword by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, a British statesman, military officer, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and David Lloyd George, a Welsh Liberal party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In the original full blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .