352pp, numerous black and white photographic plates. Blue cloth-covered boards; colour photograph pasted to front, gilt titles on front and spine; marbled endpapers. 4to. Titles on spine fading; lightly rubbed corners and spine ends (top front corner bumped). Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan. Free endpapers starting to tan. Signed and inscribed by author 'To Sir Esme and Lady Isabella Howard with best wishes and warmest thanks from The Author' (Sir Esme [later Baron] Howard was a British Diplomat. He was in Stockholm throughout the First World War and subsequently became Ambassador to the United States in 1924.). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 300 photographic and in-text illustrations.
