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[Akron, Oh.: The Werner Company, 1899].. 103pp. plus twenty-five chromolithographs. Oblong folio. Original pictorial cloth. Corners bumped, cloth edgeworn and spotted, hinges weak. Internally clean and fresh. Wagner's lavish work contains numerous large chromolithographs depicting the history of the army of the United States from the American Revolution to the Spanish-American War, with depictions of all. It also serves as a useful guide for identifying military dress throughout the first hundred years of the U.S. Army. The Werner Company of Akron, Ohio was a leading innovator in new printing technology at the end of the century. According to McGrath, the plates were created by combining the primary colors and sienna in careful mixtures, allowing far fewer color stones than would have traditionally been used. "Not only are the plates technically interesting, but three are from drawings by Henry Alexander Ogden" - McGrath. The result of this trichromatic chromolithographic technique, while somewhat…
Read More The Service of Security and Information by Wagner, Col. Arthur L - 1903
by Wagner, Col. Arthur L
The Service of Security and Information
by Wagner, Col. Arthur L
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1903. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Shelf wear, edge wear, corners worn through the cloth. Small tear at the head of the spine. Some signatures are loose and the title page is detached, but present. Clean interior, no writing. A serviceable reading copy. 244 pages with Appendices and Index. Illustrated with 17 plates including the frontispiece illustration. Includes Prefaces to the Ninth Edition, Third Edition, and First Edition (1893). A Bibliography follows the Prefaces. This book received official approval from the War Department and was adopted as a textbook at West Point and several officers' schools, and as a standard in the examination of officers for promotion. Appendix II offers 381 questions about the text, chapter by chapter, with page numbers in parentheses where the answers are found.. Tenth Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.
- Bookseller Whiting Books (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Edition Tenth Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication Kansas City
- Date Published 1903
- Keywords Military Strategy Security Information Army Textbook