THE ANCIENT AND MEDIAEVAL WORLD

Longmans, Green and Company, Toronto, 1940.  Hard cover; Part I – 244 pages including Index, Part II – 212 pages including General Index and Index to the Maps and Illustrations.  Good plus; red/brown cloth with black lettering and publisher’s logo on front board, black lettering on spine; a few small spots on boards.  Corners and spine ends bumped with some wear, very small tears to cloth at spine ends and small nick at rear top edge.  Solid binding with a slight lean to spine.  No jacket.  Prior owners’ names on front end paper, one neatly inked and one in pencil; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  Profusely illustrated with black & white photos, maps and diagrams.  Uncommon volume.  Canadian one volume edition of “The World Before Britain” and British and Foreign History Book I “Christendom and Beyond:  The Middle Ages”.  Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for use in Collegiate Institutes, High, Vocational and Continuation Schools.  ‘Each chapter or section contains reading-matter sufficient for one preparation; a Reading List, Exercises, and one or two Source Readings.  There are plenty of maps, all based on the text, and the illustrations have been carefully chosen for their value in teaching.   Both they and the Source Readings, as well as the text itself, lay emphasis on those social aspects of History which make most appeal to pupils of this age.’ (from preface)