The bindings feature hubbed spines with gilt-decorated spine bands and gilt-ruled compartments, two of which feature the author and title, four of which feature a gilt lion rampant. The matching full red Morocco goatskin bindings are the work of the renowned Bayntun-Riviere bindery of Bath, England. Both published in the first year of the twentieth century, these books mark Churchill's final literary effort as an itinerant soldier and war correspondent before embarking on his storied political career. This handsome pair are the British first edition, first printings of Churchill’s third and fourth published books London to Ladysmith via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March, the two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa.
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