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Doing their Bit. War work at Home

Boyd Cable

Ernest Andrew Ewart (1878-1943) was an Australian author who wrote under the pseudonym Boyd Cable. This book describes the observations of a serving officer on the efforts being made in Britain to support the First World War. It has a preface by David Lloyd George M.P., who became Prime Minister in December 1916. This is most war-like illustration by Blampied that I have found. I suspect that is based on a photograph.



  First edition, thus

Bibliography code: HOD-16.4i

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Series: none

Year: 1916

Format: 8vo

Pages: 134, 2 pp adverts

Binding: blue cloth with black illustration signed Blampied; title, author and "Author of 'Between the Lines'" in pale yellow. Same text and publisher on spine in black (see below left).

Size: 188 x 125 mm

Dust jacket: signed Blampied, lower left

Internal illustrations: none

Price: 1 shilling or 1 shilling 3 pence

Printing history:

Printed by: not known

Notes: The book has a preface by David Lloyd George, M.P.


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●  First US edition, thus

Bibliography code: HOD-16.4ii

Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co,

Series: none

Year: 1916

Format: 8vo

Pages: 141, adverts

Binding: tan with black illustration signed Blampied; title, author and "Author of 'Between the Lines'" in pale yellow. Same text and publisher on spine in black.

Size: 188 x 125 mm

Dust jacket: not seen

Internal illustrations: none

Price: not known

Printing history: not known

Printed by: not known

Notes: This is the same as the British edition, but a different publisher is named on the cover and title page.