Author: CHATELLE, A.,
Title: L'Effort Belge en France pendant la Guerre (1914-1918). Preface by Gaston Doumergue. Orig. edn.
Description: Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1934. large 4°. Orig.cream-coloured limp wraps., title in bold gilt lettering on front wrapper with coloured Royal Belgian Coat-of-Arms printed at head. Hftitle (verso with list of author's other publications), ti.-p. with circular vignette at tail, provenance of special copies printed on verso. 322pp. printed in double collumns. 4 coloured plates with orig. tissue-guards, portrs. of King Albert I and his Wife, &c., num. black-white plates, ills. on plates and in text after original photographs, num. facsims. in text and full-page, being decrees from belligerents, newspaper articles, communications, private documents, &c., one plate being portrs. of the National [Belgian] Committee for assistance and nutrition with legenda, names of persons, printed on clearview thin paper, extensive footnotes, list of printed and archival sources, list of contents. Limited edition of 4000 numbered copies, this copy bears nr. 3207. Volume in which author describes in minute detail the Belgian War-effort in France during the First World War or Great War. French text as orig. publ. Very fine uncut copy. Rare.

Keywords: first world war great war military efforts belgium belgian history militaria