“Brought up to the present by Raymond Postgate” –Dust jacket.
“No maps & illustrations” –Dust jacket.
“New enlarged edition” –Dust jacket.
Each page of the book consists of that page’s entries from the index of the original book providing a new abridged volume of the classic. Consisting only of lists of names, places, and subjects the original narrative is lost and replaced with a re-presentation of existing information –Art Metropole website (http://www.artmetropole.com/).