Descrizione

8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, 17 monochrome plates, 9 illustrations and 12 maps and plans (a number full-page) in the text and a large folding map on japon; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Published in the 'Country Life Series of Military Histories'. Includes coloured plate of uniform, monochrome plates of colours (1-4 Bns), medals, bibliography, ROH (first two years of WWI), and list of officers serving in August 1916. Sutcliffe, p.327; White, p.109.