Various - Report on the Reform of the Calendar - First Edition

VARIOUS [League of Nations].

League of Nations. Report on the Reform of the Calendar Submitted to the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit of the League of Nations by the Special Committee of Enquiry into the Reform of the Calendar.

Geneva: Publications of the League of Nations, 1926 and 1927.

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.163; [1], pp.58; [2]. Publisher's green card wraps, printed in black to upper. Together with the annex volume titled: Classification and Summary of Proposals for Calendar Reform.

Internally clean, soiled to edges. Damp stain to top left of upper cover going through the first two pages with some associated loss, covers marked and worn, upper cover split partly along the spine. Annex volume merely lightly handled. Uncommon. Very good.

Documents relating to the mid 1920s push towards reform the calendar to ease international commerce and regularise events.