London.Macmillan and Co. Limited. 1939. xxxii, 308pp. Illustrated throughout with plates and maps. Original cloth, gilt. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Dust-wrapper worn and torn with some slight loss, and some old tape repairs to the lower panel; some light spotting to fore-edges; one plate has some staining to inner margin where previously poorly tipped-in; else a very good copy of this scarce history - rarely found in wrapper.