WAR IMPRESSIONS BEING A RECORD IN COLOUR

xiv plus 254 pages. Original green cloth with gilt blocking to front board, and to spine, with gilt lettering, gilded top edge.  Folding chart and 99 plates with titled tissue guards, most in colour and 6 facsimile letters. Half title. Coloured Frontispiece. Title. Dedication. Preface. Contents. List of Illustrations. 

Previous owners bookplate affixed to end paper
Bumped corners and some wear to boards. Browning to FEP. Pages bright. A good copy. 

Mortimer Luddington Menpes (22 February 1855 – 1 April 1938), was an Australian-born British painter, author, printmaker and illustrator. In 1900, after the outbreak of the Boer War, Menpes was sent to South Africa as a war artist for the weekly illustrated magazine Black and White.
He was also a pioneer, with Carl Hentschel (1864–1926), in the development of techniques to reproduce coloured art works in book form. His book, 'War Impressions', published in April 1901 by A. & C. Black, was the first book to faithfully reproduce art works in color, based on watercolors done by Menpes in South Africa, and therefore was the forerunner of all illustrated art books. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Menpes 

Although the great charm of this beautiful book is the collection of coloured portraits and illustrations, the letterpress is entertaining and interesting. It is stated that the Boers were physically brave, but had "quaint ideas of right and wrong". It is remarked that no clergyman of any prominence joined the British forces, and that the chaplains seemed to have little influence with the men; on the other hand, reference is made to the many celebrated surgeons and doctors who did splendid service during the hostilities. 

SOURCE: Mendelssohn. Volume 1 Page 1008.