Penguins 2595 - The Fossil Monarchies The Collapse of the Old Order 1905-1922

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published in the U.S.A. as The Fall of the Dynasties 1963 Published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1963 Published in Penguin Books 1967 Copyright © Edmond Taylor, 1963

Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Reading and Fakenham Set in Linotype Pilgrim

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