A Revision of the Treaty. Being a Sequel to The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. viii, 223, [1], 6 [publisher's advertisements] pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind, dust jacket (partial offsetting to endpapers, neat contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean; cloth slightly rubbed at tips of spine and corners; some light wear to extremities of jacket, spine panel and upper portion of front panel faintly toned, closed tear to head of rear joint, small abrasion to middle portion of spine panel, still a very good example overall of the rare dust jacket). London, Macmillan and Co., Limited.

Following directly on from his Economic Consequences of Peace in 1919, Keynes published A Revision of the Treaty, "in which he expounded the defects of what he described as 'a Peace, which if it is carried into effect, must impair, yet further, when it might restored, the delicate, complication organisation ... through which the European peoples alone can employ themselves and live'. The violence of the controversy aroused by these two books is now difficult to appreciate. Even while they were being written many of his prophecies came true and, in the light of subsequent history, the foresight of his conclusions would be uncanny did they not proceed so inevitably from his premises" (Printing and the Mind of Man, p. 254).

Moggridge A 4.1.1.

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