First edition: 32 pages + 16 pages commercial of advertisements and 3 leaflets bound in at the end, 4 photogravure plates with foxing on the versos, many full page and text illustrations, patterned endpapers, bookplate of Alpheus Gardner Williams on the front pastedown endpaper, original green cloth over bevelled boards titled gilt on the upper cover, a very good copy.
A.C.R. Carter in his survey of the images from South Africa characterized the drawing as superior to the uncompromising and sensationalist photograph. This was because it could steer a more tasteful path through the carnage and depict the stirring and the improving side of battle. Carter was relieved that illustrators had refused to sensationalize or dramatize the conflict, and had instead shown the stoical, everyday heroism of the ordinary soldier. http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/legacy/mit4/papers/beegan.pdf
- Overall Condition: A Very Good Copy
- Size: 4to ( 330 x 250 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
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