Modern Nations and Their Famous Men

204pp, with illustrated frontispiece and further line drawings in text, two maps.  Red cloth-covered boards with black lettering and decorations.  12mo.  Cloth a little worn and faded, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine tips, sunned over spine.  Text block edges starting to tone.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  Hint of lean. A now vintage world history aimed at younger readers, with chapters on, for instance, The Barbarian Invaders; The Beginnings of England; The Northmen; Knighthood and Chivalry; The Search for the Indus; Peter the Great and Russia; People Against Kings; The Settlement of New Lands; The American Republics; The Great World War etc.