The Illustrated War News, Part 6, September 16, 1914
London: The Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd., 1914. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 48 pages. Wraps. Profusely illustrated (photographs and drawings). Front cover has some color. Bookplate inside front cover. Maps, Pencil erasure residue on front cover. Edge tear at pages 5/6. Corner of pages 25/26 and 27/28 creased. Ex-library U. S. Army Military History Research Collection. The Illustrated War News (first issue Volume 1, August 1914), was a weekly magazine during the First World War, published by the Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd. of London, England. Upon the outbreak of the first World War the magazine Illustrated London News began to publish illustrated reports related entirely to the war and entitled it The Illustrated War News. The magazine comprised 48 pages of articles, photographs, diagrams and maps printed in landscape format. From 1916 it was issued as a 40-page publication in portrait format. It was reputed to have the largest number of artist-correspondents reporting on the progress of the war. It ceased publication in 1918. Page 15 has a multi-part graphic of the Zeppelin/rigid Dirigible. There are photographs of submarines, including a protruding periscope. The value of the "air-scout" is shown pictorially at page 22. Page 26 has photographs of 8 Indian Princes and the names of Indian Service Troops (seven Lancers units and one Camel Corps) they commanded. Page 27 is a nearly full page (less caption) photograph of the Bikaner Camel Corps in alignment. French black and coloured troops are pictured. Condition: Good.
Keywords: WW1, Newspapers, Western Front, British Army, British Navy, Zeppelin, Bomb Damage, Aerial Reconnaissance, Air-Scout, Colonel Sam Hughes, German High Seas Fleet
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