This first part of the description features a list of images i.e. photographs, maps, sketches, drawings etc (these sometimes have descriptive articles but not always). They include:
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria On the Bank of The Rubicon - fp frontispeice.
Way of the War - fp with articles. With x9photos: Wounded Men on the Journey Home by Train - Recruitment in London - London Scottish Recruitment - View of Salonika - General Savoff Bulgariane ex CIC - M Malinoff Bulgarian ex-Premier - Sir Thomas Bucknill High Court Judge - Mr George Edwardes Musical Comic - Lieutenant Barnes Son of Labour MP.
On the Italian Front: A Bayonet Charge by the Bersaglieri - Italian Artillery Crossing the River Isonzo - fp showing x2 drawings by Arturo Bianchini.
Map of the Bulgarian Front and The Balkan Problem The Little States Standing in the Way of Pan-German Aspirations - fp map drawn by G. F. Morrell; shows Russia (part, Austria Hungary, Romania, Bessarabia, Montenegro - Bulgaria, Serbia, Germany (part); also railways etc. Scale shown in 200mile squares.
On the Serbian Front and The Great Resistance - fp showing x5photos:
Sofia - rural view.
Blegrade with the River Danube.
A Serbian Sharpshooter in His Pit Above the Banks of the Danube.
Nish: Austrian Prisoners Clearing the Streets of Refuse on the Danube.
Nish: Prisoners Taking Their Midday Meal.
Advance in the West The Story of The Fight on the Artois and Champagne Fronts - fp showing x6photos:
German Prisoners Bringing in French Wounded.
French Soldiers Bringing i The German Dead.
Germans Captured by the British: Passing Through Southampton.
Captured German Gun. c.keenlyside.
Captured German Trench.
Captured German Look-Out - info. the set of double towers housing lift winding machinery for the Loos colliery, used as a look-out tower by the Germans; nicknamed Tower Bridge by the British soldiers. (small).
Artois: A Musical Evening Before the Big Advance - fp Drawn by Frank Dodd RI from a Sketch by a British Officer at the Front. It shows an al fresco concert at night lit by the headlights loght of a car; two soldiers playing the piano and violin watched by a group of nurses and soldiers.
British Artillery Waiting for the Attack in a Howitzer Gun Pit in France - fp drawn at The Front showing three soldiers resting before the attack.
The Great Advance Begins: A German Redoubt Blown Sky high by a British Mine - fp drawn by Frank Gillet; shows a row of British soldiers lying on the ground waiting for the shelling to cease before they charge.
The Night-time Assault At Fleurbaux - fp drawn by Ralph Cleaver from materials supplied by a wounded soldier; shows a scene just before dawn with rows and rows of soldiers crawling up an incline ready to attack; the Germans send up a star-shell; rows of pollarded trees in the forEground.
Hooge Battle - fp showing hand to hand fighting in the rain between the German second and third line in the open and in communication trenches; ...known as the bloody angle of the Ypres Salient...
How the Germans Were Exploded Out of Their Trenches - fp drawn by Ernest Prater fro material supplied by a wounded soldier.
Map From London Town to the Battle Front: The Whole Area of British Operations Visualised - a wonderful double page (dp) map drawn by G. F. Morrell; shows SE England - The English Channel and North Sea - Stretching from Etaples and Montreuil through Calais up to Ostend , Zeebrugge and Sluis - From Forest of Crecy in the sw, through Arras, Douai and Denain in the east etc.
The Prelude of The British Guns - double centre page Drawn by Arthur Garratt form material supplied by a wounded soldier; shows a rain drenched night scene with soldiers manning their guns at various points; slag heaps and buildings in the distance with shells and starburst exploding above.
The French Advance in Champagne - a dp drawn by C. J. Payne, our Special Artist in France; shows soldiers, Poilus with bayonets fixed, advancing through the German lines .....A bas les Boches! En avant! ...on they go, an impetuous, irresistible avalanche of steel, yelling, stabbing, slaying, overwhelming! They are superb, these Frenchmen.
Caricatures of the war by various artists: C. LEandre - C. Hautot - C. Huard. X8 sketches with article titled Damning the Hun with Ridicule. The GRIm Gaiety of the Gaul as Shown iN Caricature
Sketches by a French Sergeant of Infantry: The Village of Betheny After the Bombardment; The Church at Betheny, Marne, Showing the Devastation - fp.
The Fighting Man as an Artist - sketches by the Late Lt. Col. Harold Duke Collison-Morley - fp, with three sketches, photo, and article.
The British Advance on Bagdad - fp showing x5photos:
amp Kitchen Under Palm Trees.
Machine Gun Balams Ready for Advance.
Big Turkish Mines miel Recovered from the Tigris.
Defence Works.
Turkish Guns Captured at Amara and Sent to Eurna.
Recruiting Scenes in Ottawa, Canada:
Crowds Queue Outside at a Recruiting Station.
Rush of Recruits After the Doors Open.
Enlisted Men Lined Up After the reive Recruiting.
The Maharaja of nepal by A. Bruce-Joy - statue.
A Young Dancer: Estelle Dudley Aged 8½years.
Lt. W. H. D. Acland of the Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry and RFC Honourd by Russia.
Lieutenant F. J. G. Rolland 6th Kings Own Scottish Borderers Reported Missing.
The Duchess of Teck at Waterloo. Loght.
The Latest Type 25hp Vauxhall Limousine; Napier Tourists at the summit of the Apriga Pass inthe Brescian Alps x2photos.
Theatre: The Dummy at the Prince of Wales with Mister Lauri de Freece, Mr Ambrose Manning and others - Miss Gertie Miller at the Palace Theatre x2photos.
Adverts:
Royal Vinolia Tooth Past - fp
Full page of adverts showing: Mellins Food - Royal Worcester Kidfitting Corset - Whit Fox Furs DEbenham Freebody - etc.
Dunlop Rubber Co. Ld. - fp.
Fp showing Mason Pearson Hairbrush - Beethams La Rola - Egerton Burnetts Royal Serges - Dr J. Collis Brownes Chlorodyne - etc.
Plus more.
This second part of the description features items of news, articles etc. but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include:
Page titled The Way of the War with various.
New Books Reviewed.
The Women Folk of Our Allies - An Appreciation by Candida.
Items of General Interest.
Motoring and Aviation by Edwin Campbell. 0910
This is an original USED newspaper not a scan and not a later re-print.
A publication similar to The Illustrated London News, The Graphic was a weekly illustrated newspaper published by H. R. Baines and Company Ltd of Tallis House, Whitefriars, City of London. If there is a particular date you require regarding this item eg. for a birthday or anniversary etc please ask.
Sixteen pages (32 sides). It measures 395 x 285 mm (15.5 x 11.25inches).There is no outer advertising cover; there are binding witness marks to the spine. The main frontispiece page is present with The Graphic header banner, date, price etc. Some of the pages are loose with binding witness marks. There is some age yellowing. PLEASE NOTE: I cannot guarantee that the issue is complete 'as published' - but what I have described above IS present. As far as I can tell there are no other pages missing (as well those stated above), so if you are looking for something in particular in this issue PLEASE ASK. If you require information on size of articles (i.e. number of words), sizes of images, please ask before bidding or buying.
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