FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Large 8vo. (9.1 x 6.4 inches). Portrait frontis of Viscount Cromer in volume one, and Lord Kitchener in volume two, both with plain tissue guards. Illustrated throughout with 56 mono plates, mostly by Angus McNeill of the Seaforth highlanders, and 34 maps, 20 of these fold out. With the corrected text -- inverted comma present on page 459 of volume 2, Cohen's second state. A very bright and clean set, which has been finely bound in late twentieth century half navy blue morocco by Bayntun of Bath. Spines with raised bands, each with gilt wavy line decoration. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Light blue cloth with single gilt ruled border of the leather on the boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. The spines are sun faded, but the gilt still bright and gleaming. Overall a near fine set of First editions of Churchill's second book. Only 2003 copies were published on 6th November 1899.