Author: SWINTON (ed.) Ernest
Title: Twenty Years After. The Battlefields of 1914-1918: Then and Now. COMPLETE SET IN PUBLISHER'S PICTORIAL BINDING
Description: George Newnes,, [1936-38]. 3 vols., sm. folio, with many hundreds of photographs in the text (including several multi-page sections of photogravure toned in sepia); original red pictorial cloth, upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt backs, covers lightly age-soiled else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean set. The set comprises Vol. I:1914-1916 [1936]; Vol. II: 1916-1918 [1937]; Vol. III: Supplementary Volume [1938]. Swinton's stupendous photographic survey of the Great War was the first major work to employ the 'before and after photographs' technique subsequently developed into a regular format by Winston Ramsey and the 'After the Battle' team. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Enser, p.39.

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