EUROPE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original navy blue cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge red. Illustrated with 55 black and white photographs and 10 maps. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a little bumping to the spine ends. The contents are clean and crisp throughout and remain free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine dustwrapper which has a little shelf wear to the extremities. Not price-clipped (£4.50 net to the front flap). An excellent copy.

A social history of Europe in all its aspects: economic, intellectual, political, diplomatic, military, colonial-expansionist, by the leading Marxist historian of the French Revolution and pioneer of "history from below", George Rudé (1910-1993). Part of the "History of Civilisation" series.