Shelfmark
Ob.3.22-Ob.3.28, Ob.2.01
Author
Title
The war in the air : being the story of the part played in the great war by the Royal Air Force / by Walter Raleigh.
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Official history of the war.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1922-1937.
Physical description
6 v. ; 23 cm ; 1 v. of maps., 1 index v.
Series statement
(History of the Great War based on official documents by direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence)
Note
Vols. 2-6 by H. A. Jones.
Summary, etc.
Scope and content: Volume of maps contains 42 maps of "typical aeroplane raids, 1914-1918".
Provenance
Presented to Eton College by Eugen Millington-Drake in 1938.
Binding
Brown leather quarter binding with gilt lettering on spine, marbled paper covered boards, five raised bands; bound by Best & Co.
Copy-specific note
Ms. letter from Walter Raleigh to "Jones" (i.e. H.A. Jones) tipped into front endpaper of volume 1, dated June 1925.
Copy-specific note
Ms. inscription by H. A. Jones on title pages of volumes 2-6.
Subject
Great Britain. Royal Air Force.
Subject
World War, 1914-1918 Aerial operations
Subject
Aeronautics History
Subject
Aeronautics, Military
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Added entry--name
Jones, H. A., 1893 - 1945 (Henry Albert) author.
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Best & Co. binder.
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Clarendon Press publisher.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Identifier
B29753