Painting as a Pastime

First edition, fourth printing.  32pp, colour plate frontispiece (showing Winston Churchill at his easel)  plus 18 colour plate illustrations. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on black relief on the spine.  All edges sprayed red.  Red endpapers.  8vo.  Cloth a little shelf worn, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends.  Previous owner's name nearly inked on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A lengthy essay by Winston Churchill on painting followed by colour plate illustrations of his own works.  The essay originally appeared in print in Thoughts and Adventures in 1932; and was first published in book form by Odhams Press in 1948.