Description:
Hutchinson & Co. London. nd. [1925] First edition. Octavo. xvii, 328pp. Photo frontis., 31 further plates, text and endpaper maps. Original red cloth, gilt lettering, slightly sunned to spine. A little rubbed, marked and bumped. Endpapers slightly toned, light occasional spotting."I realised that a new Europe had been moulded out of the old…It mattered little whether it was economically sound or unsound that this or that race should be given national status… independence was in itself sufficient to justify the map of Europe being made out anew".