Large 8vo. 554pp. With ten maps. Original publisher's green cloth boards lettered gilt, all edged trimmed. With the author's gift inscription on the FFEP 'Dr Thomas Martin, with kindest regards. from John Buchan. Oct: 23: 34', and additional pencil notes to front pastedown. Boards a little rubbed and marked, corners bumped, internally bright and clean with all maps listed present.

The fourth impression of Buchan's biography of Oliver Cromwell, printed a mere month after the first was published in September of 1934.

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician, best remembered for his subterfuge thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), and serving as Governor General of Canada from 1935 to his death after a fall in 1940.