CELEBRITIES OF THE ARMY.
Parts 1-XVIII, complete. Parts consecutively paginated 1-144, with full page coloured portraits; impl 4to; stiff green or red printed paper wrappers, worn and soiled (some Parts more than others), edges faded or browned, stapled, supplier's stamp on the upper wrapper of Parts V-IX, Parts XI-XVIII, Part I backstrip split, Part VI ink inscription on the upper wrapper; George Newnes, Limited, London, n.d.[c.1900]. *Parts I and II state 'To be completed in about 12 sixpenny fortnightly parts', Parts III to XII state 'To be completed in Twelve or more Fortnightly Sixpenny Parts', Parts XIII to XV state 'To be completed in Eighteen Sixpenny Parts' and Parts XVI to XVIII state 'This Publication will be completed in 18 Fortnightly Parts. All back numbers are still obtainable. Handsome Cloth Cases (with Title page and Index) are in preparation, price 2/6, Post free, 2/9'. First published in Navy & Army Illustrated in the lead up to the Boer War. Each issue includes short biographies and a full page colour portrait of one of the 'Celebrities', mostly of senior military personnel who were actively engaged in the Boer War. Item #144137
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