western front drawings muirhead bone de muirhead bone sir david (3 résultats)

London, "Country Life"/George Newness, 1917. Part VIII only. Small 4°. Original limp publ. wrappers with matching dustjacket. Covertitle in bold capital monochrome type with a large monochrome illustration after a drawing by Muirhead Bone, illustrating a french village: Moonlight, explained inside front cover, repeated on dustjacket. [3]pp. of introd. text, large decorative headpiece, a vierw of Danville village near Arras. Album with 20 monochrome plates after drawings with descriptive text on facing pp., sponsoring ads. on bioth sides of outer back-cover. Odd part VIII of the series, listing and illustrating plates XLI-LX. sERIES OF wAR DRAWINGS FROM THE wESTERN fRONT, 1914-1918, fIRST wORLD wAR. pUBLISHED BY COMMAND OF THE wAR oFFICE. with dustjacket. gOOD COPY. (RUBBERSTAMP IN FRONT MARGIN OF DUSTJACKET. dUSTJACKET HEAVILY FRAYED AND DAMAGED IN PLATES, SKILFULLY RESTORED HOWEVER, SOME MINIMAL PIN-PRICK SPOTS ON VERSO, BLANK, OF LAST PLATE).

London, "Country Life"/George Newness, June, 1917. Small 4°. Orig. wrappers.Title and a large illustration after a drawing by Muirhead Bone (The Castle of Péronne), on front wrapper. [2]pp. of introd. text with a large head-piece after a drawing (the Castle of Arras) (description on verso of front wrapper). 20 full-page plates (versos blank) after drawings by Muirhead Bone), with descriptive text in english on facing pp., publ. list printed on recto/verso of lower outer wrapper. ["The Western Front" series, Vol. 2-part 1, June 1917]. Illustrations, with descriptive text, show devastations at the Western Front, World War I, or Great War. Published by authority of the War Office. Contains, a.o. (:), Bapaume, Thiepval, The Road to Péronne, The Town Hall of Péronne, A Soldier's cemetery.Good to very good copy.

London, "Country Life"/George Newness, 1917. STOCKED: I (Introuction by General Sir Douglas Haig), Parts I-June 1917; IV (April 1917); V (May 1917); VII (August 1917) - IX (September 1917). Together 7 ;parts of the series published by authority of the War Office, London.Small 4°. Orig. wrappers.Title and a large captioned monochrome illustration after a drawing by Muirhead Bone, further explanatory text on verso of front wrapper. Each part with 20 captioned monochrome plates after drawings on-the-sport, further explanatory text on facing page, each part preceded by a [2]pp. introduction, large monochrome headpiece after an illustration at top margin of each part., publ. list inside lower outer cover. Collection of seven odd parts of this english language monthly illustrating war-scenes at the Western front of the First Worldwar, or Great War, originally drawnn on-the-spot by Sir David Muirhead Bone picturing the misery of war. Good set. Bone was a Scottish etcher, drypoint and watercolour artist, appointed to official war artist May 1916. He was recognized as a valuable asset in allied war propaganda.