Pax Britannica Trilogy: Pax Britannica; Heaven's Command; Farewell the Trumpets [3 VOLS]

London: Faber & Faber, 1968-73-78.

Three volumes, all first editions, first printings. Original red cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust-wrappers, not price-clipped. All vols 8vo (9 x 6 ins) with mapped endpapers printed in three colours; pp 544; 554; 576. Many photographic plates. Light creasing to the tops of the spines on the jackets of vols I and II. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. A near fine set of this important history of the British Empire "Among Morris's most notable achievements was the three-volume Pax Britannica, which chronicled the history of the British Empire from the earliest days of the East India Company to the disruptive post-colonial years of the 1960s".