Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1789 - 1950)

The history of the last century and a half, up to and beyond the War of 1939, cannot be compressed into a volume of six hundred pages. At the most a sketch, a few outlines, some impressions can be given. But, as in a Japanese picture, if the right lines are put in, the general effect should be good. The original authors offered this book as their conception of how the main threads of the period cross and interweave with one another, and of how the tapestry was composed.

Published 1961.

Binding of book is intact. Dust jacket missing. Slight fraying around edges of cloth covers. Text on spine is faded. Now wrapped in plastic jacket. Spots of foxing, ink and stains on edges of book. Bookplate, name in ink, residue left by tape on endpapers. Also stains run down joints of spine. Annotations in ink, some foxing and staining on certain pages of book, otherwise in good condition. A slight musty odour when flipping through.