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From: John M Chapman <>
Subject: [WW1] Old WW1 Prints Found
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:53:37 +0100
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In message <00c801c14bc8$ddf2bde0$>, ivytrott
<> writes
>Greetings from a new list member.
>I have come across a folder of prints by Muirhead Bone. It was issued by
>authority of the War Office in 1918, and is a Presentation Edition.
>Unfortunately a few of the prints are missing.
>Could anyone on the List tell me more about these prints, whether I could
>replace the missing ones, even with scanned copies, and who the folders would
>have been presented to?

If you have the same portfolio as I have it was published in 1917 by
'Country Life' by Authority of the War Office. They were published in
several parts at the cost of 2/- per part. size 9x12 inches.
I have part 1 and the full list of prints is:-
cover - The Virgin of Albert
title - A village on the Somme
1 - General Sir Douglas Haig
2 - Grand'place and ruins of the Cloth Hall Ypres
3 - A street in Ypres
4 - Distant view of Ypres
5 - A village church in Flanders
6 - The battle of the Somme
7 - Tanks
8 - Ruined German trenches near Contalmaison
9 - The night picket
10 - Dug-outs
11 - Gordon Highlanders Officers Mess
12 - Waiting for the wounded
13 - The happy warrior
14a - Red Cross barges on the Somme
14b - Red Cross barges on the Somme
15 - At a base station
16 - disembarked troops waiting to march off
17 - On a hospital ship
18 - Soldiers billets - moonlight
19 - A gun hospital
20 - An observation post

The edition de luxe had prints 20 x 15 inches and cost 10s6d per folio.
It was reproduced in colour - each folio had 10 plates of which part 1
had:

1 - General Sir Douglas Haig
2 - Distant view of Ypres
3 - Grand'place and ruins of the Cloth Hall Ypres
4 - The battle of the Somme
5 - Officers of the Gordon Highlanders
6 - A gun hospital
7 - The tanks
8 - Watching our artillery fire on Trones wood from Montauban
9 - Amiens Cathedral
10 - The night picket

proceeds to the British Red Cross Fund. They would be presented to
whomsover the purchaser desired.

>Thank you. Ivy Trott.
>
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