Maps Germany, Signed (2 results)

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, 6-1/2 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide. Limp red cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & the spine. The covers are bumped and lightly soiled. xxxiv, 442 & 11 pages, illustrated with 33 maps & 56 plans, including color folding maps. The pages are slightly toned. Very Good. Twelfth Revised Edition.From the library of Carlo Bourbon del Monte, Prince di San Faustino (1867-1917), signed by him "Carlo Bourbon del Monte / Prince of San Faustino / Palazzo Barberini / Roma (Italy)" on the front endpaper and with 2 pages of notes penned by him on the rear blanks. The prince was the father of Virginia Agnelli (1899-1945), the wife of the Italian industrialist and head of Fiat Edoardo Agnelli.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed warmly on a preliminary blank by David Lloyd George: "For the Henry Richard Library from one of his admiring countrymen, D. Lloyd George, July 26th 1927". The Henry Richard Library of the Peace Society was named after its long-serving secretary, the Welsh MP of that name. "CertainlyLloyd Georgehad his full share of responsibility for the harsher features of the treaty. He took a strongly nationalist position on issues deemed to be affecting Britain's national security or other interests YetLloyd Georgewas also the most flexible of the peacemakers, sometimes taking an intermediate line between the nationalism ofClemenceauand the sometimes high-flown generalities ofWoodrow Wilson Lloyd Georgefiercely, though unavailingly, condemned decisions such as the so-called Polish corridor, the Saarland, or placing the Sudeten Germans under the regime of the new hybrid Czechoslovakia He urged the dangers of creating a sense of mass grievance at a time when Russia and perhaps Europe were gripped by 'the spirit of revolution' [as he put it] On his return,Lloyd Georgehailed a peace with honour Nevertheless, both in terms of frontier settlements and of reparations, the Versailles treaty appeared harsh and vindictive to many observers" (ODNB). Most controversially, the treaty enshrined the concept of German "War Guilt". Article 231, printed here, stipulated that "Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies". This clause and its associated reparations led John Maynard Keynes to declare the treaty a "Carthaginian Peace". In 1923, Lloyd George published The Truth about Reparations and War-Debts, and in 1938, one of his two "massive works of reminiscence" (ODNB), The Truth About the Peace Treaties. At the time of presentation, the secretary of the Henry Richard Library was another Welshman, Herbert Dunnico (1875-1953, Labour MP, knighted in 1938), with whom Lloyd George conducted a lengthy correspondence. One of Dunnico's initiatives was the launch of thePeace Negotiations Committeein March 1916, "which met regularly, organized meetings, and promoted a petition that attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures.Dunnicoaddressed hundreds of meetings in the final years of the war, and, following a speech at Aberdare in January 1918, was summoned under theDefence of the Realm Act, charged with attempting to cause disaffection among the civilian population, though the case was dropped" (ODNB). Small folio in eights (336 x 200 mm). With 9 double-sided leaves of facsimile signatures and 5 folding maps (depicting West and East Germany, the Saar Basin, Danzig, and Schleswig); parallel text in English and French. Contemporary blue calf, spine with five gilt-decorated raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth compartments, remaining compartments with gilt foliate lozenge, covers with border of gilt paired fillets enclosing blind scrolling roll, gilt lettered on front cover, blind edge roll and turn-ins, gilt-veined blue marbled endpapers. A few scratches and abrasions to binding neatly refurbished, scattered foxing, some short tears to folding maps. A handsome copy.