Belgium The Glorious Volumes I and II

Belgium the Glorious: Her Country and Her People. Edited by Walter Hutchinson. London: Hutchinson & Co., c.1915–1916. Two volumes, large quarto. Original purple cloth gilt, decorative borders and pictorial centrepieces. Illustrated throughout with approximately 520 black-and-white illustrations, 8 colour plates, and 5 maps. A World War I-era illustrated record of Belgium and its destruction, produced as a contemporary documentary and propaganda work. Bindings sound with light wear and fading; contents clean with occasional age-toning. A complete and attractive original set. Original gilt-decorated cloth bindings • No signs of rebinding • No major spine loss • Internals look clean with light, normal age toning • Some cloth fading (very common with the purple dye) • Light spotting/foxing on blank pages (not text-threatening)