Kultur Cartoons. With a Foreword by H. G. Wells.
London: Stanley Paul, 1915. First edition. Wraps. The Australian political caricaturist Will Dyson's World War I folio of cartoons spoofing the German Kaiser and militarism in Europe. Full page caricatures of great power by Dyson (1880 – 1938), who became an official Australian war artist at the front in WWI.
With a foreword by H. G. Wells, who chastises the German people, noting, "[l]oyalty to evil things is the revelation of a kindred evil. What business had you Germans with loyalty and obedience?" he [Dyson] would say. "Your business under this stuff was revolution."
Folio, title vignette, 20 full page tipped in illustrations, 3 text illustrations. Full page illustrations tipped on to heavier brown stock. Pictorial gray wrappers, with title printed in red. Cord bound. Chipped at bottom edge, lower corner of front wrapper, small previous owner label inside front wrapper. OCLC: 65657654. Trove 57447737. Very good condition. Item #22726
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