Author: MUIRHEAD BONE
Title: The Western Front. Drawings. Part 1, December 1916. With an introduction by General Sir Douglas Haig.
Description: Country Life Ltd. and George Newnes Ltd, London, 1917. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated. Card wrappers. With a title page drawing and twenty full-page plates with text by C.E.Montague to the adjacent versos. A touch of wear and nicking to the yapped edges, and a little chipping to the spine ends. A lovely crisp copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, albeit a somewhat distressed example, split into two parts, with some edge-nicking, and spotting, and four notable areas of edge-loss from the front panel. Contemporary former owner name and date inked to the head of the front panel. The first number of Bone's celebrated collection of Great War drawings, which were issued in ten separate monthly instalments. Very Good/Poor.

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