1915-1916 6 Vols The War Illustrated Album De Luxe: The Story of the Great European War told by Camera, Pen and Pencil

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

In the publisher's original red half morocco binding with cloth boards.

Six volumes of a ten volume set, edited by Sir John Alexander Hammerton, a British writer described by the Dictionary of National Biography as "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known", consisting of: 

This set includes: Volume I: The First Phase Illustrated with a frontispiece, one special full-colour plate, twelve maps, and twelve monochromatic plates, with many in-text images. With chapters by H. G. Wells, Sir Gilbert Parker, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 

Volume II: The Winter Campaign, 1914-1915 Illustrated with a frontispiece, one special full-colour plate, nine maps, and twelve monochromatic plates, with many in-text images. With chapters by H. G. Wells, Arthur D. Innes, Fred T. Jane, and C. Grahame-White.

Volume III: The Spring Campaign, 1915 Illustrated with a frontispiece, one special full-colour plate, nine maps, and twelve monochromatic plates, with many in-text images. With chapters by Arthur D. Innes, Emile Vandervelde, Austin Harrison, John Foster Fraser, Marie Corelli, and Walter Emanuel. 

Volume IV: The Summer Campaign, 1915 Illustrated with two special full-colour plates including a frontispiece, ten maps, and twelve monochromatic plates, with many in-text images. With chapters by Arthur D. Innes, Major Redway, H. W. Wilson, Sidney Low, and Edward Wright.

Volume V: The Second Winter Campaign, 1915-1916 illustrated with two special full-colour plates including a frontispiece, nine maps, and twelve monochromatic plates, with many in-text images. With chapters by Arthur D. Innes, Major Redway, Sir W. M. Ramsay, Sir L. Chiozza Money, and John Redmond. Collated complete.

Volume VI: The Spring and Summer Campaign of 1916, 1915 illustrated with two special full-colour plates including a frontispiece, nine maps, and twelve monochromatic plates, and many further in-text illustrations. With Chapters by Lord Northcliffe, Lady Jellicoe, Commander Bellairs, R.N, Major Redway H. W. Nevinson, Arthur D. Innes, M.A.