First edition. Numerous half-tone illustrations on 25 plates, 5 plans, 6 tables, 8 genealogies and 2 full-page maps. 8vo. Very good in the original cloth. xxv, [1], 605pp. London, Allen & Unwin, 1936.
This copy has the publisher’s label on the front pastedown endpaper presenting it for review. On the front free endpaper is a typed letter, signed and dated 10/4/36, from J.R. Ackerley (then the new editor of the ‘Listener’) on ‘Listener’ notepaper requesting an up to 800 word review.
