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

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited,, 1922. First edition, first impression, of Keynes's second work on the question of German reparations, again arguing for a reduction in the payments demanded by the Treaty of Versailles. Following the success of Keynes's Economic Consequences, the Sunday Times paid Keynes a large sum for five widely syndicated articles on the same subject, which appeared in August and September 1921. The present work, published in January 1922, collects and revises these articles; Keynes had originally proposed to his publisher a revision of Economic Consequences, but was persuaded that circumstances necessitated a new work. A Revision of the Treaty includes an analysis of the diplomatic grappling of the previous years, and questions the legality of France's repeated threats to occupy the Ruhr, threats they would make good the following year. Keynes is unsympathetic to all sides, including the German proposals. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. Extremities rubbed, spine lightly sunned, endpapers browned as often. A very good copy. Fundaburk 9996; Mattioli 1840; Moggridge A 4.1.1; The New Palgrave III, pp. 19-39; Moggridge, Economist's Biography, pp. 369-370.