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[32] pp.; 22.2 x 22.2 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 1 - November 9, 1969. Essay by Joan C. Siegfried. Includes exhibition checklist. Artists include Terry Allen, Frederick Anderson, Jeremy Anderson, Bernard Aptekar, Robert Arneson, Gene Beery, Wallace Berman, Peter Bodnar, Roger Brown, Roy De Forest, Oyvind Fahlström, Edward C. Flood, William Geis, David Gilhooly, Gerald Gooch, Robert Gordy, Red Grooms, Sue Hall, Philip Hanson, Robert Hudson, Jess, R.B. Kitaj, Nicholas Krushenick, Roy Lichtenstein, Alden Mason, James Melchert, Gladys Nilsson, James Nutt, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ed Paschke, Peter Phillips, Christina Ramberg, Mel Ramos, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, Peter Saul, William Schwedler, David Smyth, Norman Steigelmeyer, Ernest Trova, Andy Warhol, H.C. Westermann, William T. Wiley, Karl Wirsum, Ray Yoshida, Arlo Acton, Robyn Martin, and Giovanni Ragusa. Covers designed by Edward C. Flood. Very Good. Light rubbing of covers and cover edges and spine and bumping of top and bottom right corners. 2.3 cm. of water staining to the bottom of pages 27-32 at spine. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.

Zustand: Very Good. [vi], 77, [1], portrait frontis of Lord Napier, additional illustrated title page, 68 engraved plates. . HB. Fo. (450x320mm), orig. pictorial, red cloth bevelled boards, blind-stamped decorative border, with gilt-blocked illustration of an expedition elephant carrying canon to front board, bevelled edges, aeg, recased and recently rebacked in matching cloth, gt title to spine, new endpapers. Small, faint marginal stain to upper, inner corner of final fourteen pages. Cont. gift inscription to flyleaf. A very good copy. With one hundred illustrations engraved from originals by special artists and correspondents of the Illustrated London News. In this work Roger Curtis Acton (1827-1906), British journalist and early member of the Royal Colonial Institute, presents a detailed narrative of the British Expedition to Abyssinia (1868) and a biographical account of Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia (then commonly referred to as Theodore).The expedition, mounted as both a rescue and punitive operation, followed the imprisonment by Tewodros of missionaries and British envoys in an attempt to compel military aid from Britain. Under the command of General Sir Robert Napier, a formidable force was transported hundreds of miles across roadless, mountainous terrain, an engineering feat in itself, before defeating Tewodros's forces in every engagement, storming the fortress of Magdala, and liberating the captives. As British troops closed in, the Emperor took his own life with a pistol once presented to him by Queen Victoria.Lavishly illustrated and vividly reported, Acton's work captures what Harold G. Marcus would later describe as "one of the most expensive affairs of honour in history." (The Life and Times of Menelik II: Ethiopia, 1844-1913. 1995).An important work on this remarkable, if often overlooked, Victorian military campaign.

, [4], 77, [1] pages, complete with 70 plates (some double page) including a lithographed illustrated title page and frontispiece. This copy was owned by the family of Gen. H. T. Rogers and has added annotations throughout the text: under Chapter VIII in contents list an additional item is added for p49; a list of names is added in the margin of p31 starting with Maj.Penn; a note is added to margin of p48 "now 1898 King of Abyssinia"; the number is changed on p52 from 25th Regiment of the Line to 26th; a list of names is added to the margin of p55, it appears to be ammending the rank of Colonel Twiss; names are added to the margin of p63, Captain Twiss is mentioned again, plus two lieutenants and a note about sick leave; on p74 a note in the margin reads "Lieut F Barker and Lieut Taylor were despatched to the gate on horseback carrying gun powder 50Ibs + entered with the storming party"; on p75 an asterix in text links to added names in the margin; there are highlighted areas to the text on p76 and 77; corrections to the text in pencil on p77; a question mark against paragraph on p77 that mentions only 50 English lives lost; underlining of Major Prendergast (Madras Sappers and Miners) R.E. in appendix and note underneath "Sir Harry Prendergast: friend of Gen. H.T.Rogers, R.E. my father. S. Rogers, Chaplain to the Forces, Retired, Folkestone 1933". General Rogers was a member of the Madras Sappers and Miners (Royal Engineers) with Major Prendergast and served in Abyssinia.The notes in the text suggest edits made by Gen H.T. Rogers or his son about this conflict First Edition thus , crudely rebacked, corners and edges rubbed- heavily in places, marking to boards, gutta percha perished, a few plates have repaired tears, chipping to edges of early pages and illustrated title page, foxing to endpapers, pages mostly clean, fair condition , original red cloth, gilt stamped illustration and title to front, blindstamping to rear, bevelled board edges, gilt text block edge , folio, 46 cm x 32 cm Hardback ISBN: