Historical information

From Title Page. "The War Illustrated/A/Pictorial/Record of the/Conflict of/ the /Nations".

Physical description

Hardcover books - Volumes 1-9, eight books with volumes 8 & 9 in one book.
Cover - cardboard with dark red colour buckram. Embossed with black ink print on front and spine. Illustrated with a patriotic symbol of a soldier with sword and shield.
Covers used to bind the individual weekly issues of one magazine into permanent volumes for World War One.
Pages - paper, cut plain, off white. Pictorial book with black and white photographs and paintings. Colour illustrations at front.
Front end paper - handwritten owner's signature.
1. Volume 1, pages 1 to 632.
2. Volume 2, pages 3 to 616. Front pages missing.
3. Volume 3, pages 3 to 624. Front pages missing.
4. Volume 4, pages 1 to 624.
5. Volume 5, pages 1 to 624.
6. Volume 6, pages 1 to 554.
7. Volume 7, pages 1 to 520.
8. Volume 8, pages 1 to 448.
8. Volume 9, pages 1 to 450.

Inscriptions & markings

Handwritten details - blue ink pen "F.C. Jones".