Ten total volumes plus one poster, the ten volumes collecting war cartoons from British publications The Daily Graphic, The Daily Mail, The Weekly Dispatch, and The Evening News, the color-printed poster by Marcel Gillis with text in English and French. Various sizes, mostly oblong octavo. Ten volumes all with original illustrated wrappers, Daily Graphic volumes side-stapled. Assorted toning, foxing, chipping, minor losses, soiling, one volume with wrappers coming loose, another with covers separated, overall good to very good. Primarily London: H.R. Baines & Co./Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited/Haycock, Cadle & Graham Ltd., approximately 1914-1921.

This collection of British World War I cartoons includes a complete set in 7 issues of "'The Daily Graphic' Special War Cartoons", Nos. 1-7, published at H.R. Baines & Co. in London between 1914 and 1915. These seven volumes are 24 pp. each, with a cartoon printed to each page. These cartoons include political cartoons, caricatures, and maps. Virtually all of the cartoons appear to be by Jack Walker, a British cartoonist who also drew for the magazine The Golden Penny. Volume No. 7 also contains one hand-colored cartoon.

Also included in this collection are two volumes of cartoons drawn by Tom Webster for the Daily Mail. The first of these is "Tom Webster's Annual 1921: Cartoons from The Daily Mail, Evening News, and Weekly Dispatch", 96 pp of caricatures and cartoons. The other is titled "Tom Websterj of the Daily Mail: Among the Sportsmen", also 96 pp., with many sporting-themed cartoons including boxing, billiards, golf, chess, horse-racing, lawn tennis, croquet, baseball, track & field, cricket, lawn bowling, and rugby.

The last volume in this group is titled "Poy's War Cartoons from 'The Evening News'", a 64 pp. volume of cartoons with a brief introduction by W. McCartney, no publication date visible. The final item, the Marcel Gillis poster, is titled "Way to Paris or rise and decline of Bocheland/Chemin de Paris ou grandeur et décadence du Bocheland", dated 1918 and marked Belgique. The poster is comprised of fourteen individual color-printed cartoons, each captioned with a single sentence in both English and French telling the story of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

A fascinating historical collection of war cartoons.

Book ID: 53758

Price: $1,250.00