268p, illustrated with black and white images, maps etc. In green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine (boards gently rounded at corners and spine ends). Internally a little toned and some mild signs of compression, else neat and clean throughout. In its original, edge worn, torn and chipped, with tears and some loss around the head of the spine, dust jacket. 8vo. A thorough, historically-based analysis of the history of the development of the British Commonwealth, producing the closing chapter on the history of the legacy of the British Empire and its emergence into a modern Commonwealth, with snapshot interpretation of the state of the Commonwealth in the mid 1960s.
