Book Description

small 8vo, ex-libris; stamps of the Liverpool Commercial Reference Library on the margin of leaves and tipped in label before the rear cover, otherwise leaves crisp. In the original printed green wraps; spine exposed with stitching holes (presumed to be previously bound into a larger volume at the library), and m.s. library number in ink to the tail corner.
Dealer Notes
A working copy of the first public edition of the official handbooks taken to the Peace Conference. Sections discuss the development of the Ottoman Empire, The centralisation of governmental power, the influence of the nationalist movement and the different tribal groups in the region.

The pages discussing Abdul Hamid’s Asiatic policy reference Iraq, Ibn Saud’s influence in Arabia and the Hejaz and Ottoman issues with the Kurdish and Bedouin populations."
Author PROTHERO, G.W. (ed.)
Date 1920
Binding disbound
Publisher His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
Condition G
Pages [4], 18pp.

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