A History of British Socialism (Volumes I and II)

Complete in two volumes. Volume one: xxii, 362pp; Volume two: xii, 462pp. Volumes are uniformly bound in red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering (gently rubbed at corners and spine ends, faded at spine tips, lightly sunned spines). Internally both volumes are neat, clean and bright. Both firmly bound. Volume two has a small bookseller's ticket on the front paste down indicating that the book was once in the stock of B N Blackwell, Booksellers of Broad Street, Oxford. Volume one only has a dust jacket (jacket is tanned, heavily chipped at edges, heavily sunned on spine). First published in 1919, Beer's work on the history of British socialism was quickly established as the classic on its subject. Volume one covers the period up to the birth of Chartism; and volume two originally brought the work up to the first world war but this edition has an additional chapter covering the period since first publication, 1919 to 1928.