The Dardanelles - Norman Wilkinson (Longmans Green 1915 1st ed.) Gallipoli, WWI

The Dardanelles - Norman Wilkinson (Longmans Green 1915 1st ed.) Gallipoli, WWI

The 1915 first edition with colour plates and tissue guards. The Dardanelles by Norman Wilkinson is a book that illustrates war in coloured paintings and watercolour drawings and describes the battles and conditions in the trenches as well. 

Norman Wilkinson CBE RI (1878 – 1971) was a British artist who usually worked in oils, watercolours, and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camouflage. Wilkinson invented dazzle painting to protect merchant shipping during the First World War. 

"The landing at Suvla Bay, August 6-7. The strictest secrecy was maintained with regard to the new landing in Gallipoli, thus preventing anything but the vaguest rumours leaking out as to the point chosen for disembarkation. It was presumed that the Turks must have taken every possible protective measure to guard against surprise. I was very fortunate in being attached to the ship which the Admiral conducting operations had chosen as his temporary flagship..."

Hardback with gilt decorations and title colour plates with tissue guards and b/w ill., high quality paper stock, with gilt to top edges, 122pp.