The War Speeches: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches.

London: Cassell & Company Ltd,, 1941-46. The lion's roar First editions, first impressions, first states throughout, of the full set of the leader's wartime speeches, published in stages while the war was still ongoing, together with his post-war Secret Session Speeches. This set is from the library of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald I. Cohen, with his pencilled ownership inscription on the front free endpaper of each volume (aside from Victory, which he omitted to inscribe, but we can confirm is from his collection). Cohen's Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, published in three volumes in 2006, is the authoritative source for collectors, librarians, and dealers. Onwards to Victory is additionally from the library of the British historian Alfred Leslie Rowse (1903-1997), with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper dated June 1944, and his pencilled annotations to the text. Rowse published a book on the Churchill family, The Later Churchills (1958), which covered up to and including Winston. Seven volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With dust jackets. Frontispieces in first five volumes along with other photographs. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper of vol. II and VII. Very light rubbing and bumping at extremities, light spotting to edges; jackets a little worn and rubbed, neat repair to closed tear on verso of jacket of vols. I and II, all unclipped. A very good set in very good jackets. Cohen A142.1.a; 172.1.a, 183.1.a, 194.1.a, A214.1a; 223.1.a; 227.2.a.