First edition, first printing. x, 530, [8]pp. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles front and spine. 12mo. Cloth is worn, rubbed all round edges and joints, frayed and rounding at corners and ends of a ridged spine. An ex university library copy with the usual markings on the front endpapers, a shelf number on the spine and a small stamp on the copyright page (no other library markings). Endpapers toned with front hinge cracked. Some toning to text block edges, affecting internal page margins.
Prepared by the London Municipal Society, this volume carried a prefatory letter of endorsement from Arthur Balfour, the first Lord Balfour and British Stateman who had served as a conservative politician and British Prime Minister from 1902-1905. Designed as a handbook for those campaigning against socialism, it perceives the contemporary state of socialism as divided between evolutionary and revolutionary bodies; it describes the current state of socialism in the UK before examining the effects of socialism in various aspects of societal and industrial contexts, all from the perspective of those committed to conservatism.
