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8vo., First Edition thus, with 16 plates; original navy blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. The original edition is scarce in this condition. Not recorded by Enser.
Sm. 4to., 12pp., black-letter throughout, with a large woodcut illustrations and woodcut initial in the text; a near fine copy. Good quality facsimile of the original edition. The Reading Mercury was the town's first newspaper, one of the first in the UK and older than The Times. See Horrocks, p.157.
10 parts in 3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, text in English, with very numerous chromolithographed and tinted plates (original tissue guards present where called for), many large folding maps on japon, and some hundreds of monochrome photographs (a number full-page), and maps in the text; original salmon cloth, backs lettered and tooled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a remarkably bright, clean set. This magnificent record of one of the earliest major international conflicts of the twentieth century is remarkable on several counts. In essence an early partwork, it was compiled and issued whilst the war was still in progress, enabling its readers to follow the course and consequences of the fighting in a manner previously unparalleled. Certainly it is unique is the comprehensiveness and detail of its coverage, and in the variety and extent of its illustrations, the two together constituting a truly massive documentary resource. COMPLETE SETS OF THIS NOTABLE WORK ARE RARE, THE MORE SO IN ORIGINAL CLOTH IN THIS CONDITION. Wenckstern II,140.
Sm. oblong booklet containing 10 monochrome postcards perforated at inner margin (all with original tissue guards), captioned in French and English; original printed wrappers in black, yapped edges, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. The photographs are by Thill of Brussels and include The Lion and the Panorama, Waterloo and Mont-St-Jean, the Three Monuments, French Monument, La Haye Saint, Prussian Monument, Hougoumont, the Lion, Belle-Alliance, and Mont- Saint-Jean. Nice example.
Sm. oblong booklet containing 9 monochrome postcards perforated at inner margin (all with original tissue guards), captioned in French and English; original printed wrappers in red and green, yapped edges, covers very lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy. Published in the series 'The Historical Belgium Artistic Collection of the Belgian Sites and Monuments'. The front wrapper carries the well-known circular ink stamp of 'Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo', enclosing the lion memorial. The photographs are by Thill of Brussels and include The Lion and the Panorama, the Three Monuments, French Monument, La Haye Saint, Belgian Monument, the Lion, Papelotte Farm, Belle-Alliance, and Mont- Saint-Jean. Nice example.
