| Description | Printer's copy of the corrected and amended typescript text of the work, in 25 chapters, as published by Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd of London and printed by Thomas Nelson (Printers) Ltd in 1968.
The text has been marked up with annotations, typological and other editorial corrections and amendments and insertions in various hands, some of which are in Oswald Mosley's own. Some of the insertions are quite extensive. There are also some editorial comments and questions made on the text for Mosley's consideration, together with answers inserted as appropriate. In the published work, Mosley acknowledges the research and editorial contribution and assistance provided by his publishers, particularly by James Mitchell and James Shepherd, and it is therefore likely that many of the annotations and amendments are in their hands. Jeffrey Hamm and Robert Row were also acknowledged by Mosley for their secretarial and research assistance, but their handwriting has not been identified on the text itself.
There are a few notes for the printer about layout, font size etc which have been marked on the typescript. Some chapters are also accompanied by separate notes for the printers to draw attention to insertions, deletions and amendments. Each of the chapters, apart from chapter 13, is marked as 'Printers copy'. Some of the chapters bear titles, mostly in typed form and occasionally in Mosley's hand, but these titles are not the ones used in the published work although some are very similar. Other chapters do not have titles but often have a summary of their contents in the form of key headings, sometimes running to several lines, the text of which has usually been crossed through. Presumably the printers were supplied with a finalised version of chapter titles to replace either the working titles or the summaries.
This text appears to have originally been sent to the publishers in two separate batches. The first batch to be sent consisted of chapters 1-12 and these chapters have been both separately paginated and also renumbered into a single sequence. The second batch to be sent consists of the remaining chapters 13-25. These were sent together with a memorandum from E. J. Hamm, dated 22 May 1968, in which he had typed up the amendments and insertions which Mosley had made on the text by hand. The typed amendments have been referenced A-Z, presumably by the editor, and the text has been marked up with these references to enable the printer to take in the appropriate correction. At the same time, the manuscript amendments made by Mosley were presumably crossed through. The chapters in this second batch are separately paginated but, although these page numbers have been crossed through, they have not been replaced with the continuing single number sequence following on from the end of chapter 12.
The majority of the text is in the form of a top typescript copy. However, some chapters are in the form of photocopies of an original text, other chapters are carbon copies and a few chapters include one or two pages of a carbon typescript copy. However, in all cases the manuscript amendments and alterations are the original ones made on a photocopied or carbon copied text. |