Les croix de bois.

N.p. [France], [1915-1918?].. 203 snapshot photographs (6 cyanotype), mounted on rectos and versos of 18 hinged heavy card leaves (paginated 1-35 in pencil); 7 further leaves unused. Extensive captioned commentary and notes, in pen and pencil. Oblong sm. folio. Cloth. A skillful amateur's album of photographs of the War and its aftermath in Northern France. Focused emphatically on infantry casualties, it includes many images of military cemeteries and of the dead heaped in the trenches, as well as of young soldiers posing coolly with corpses and skulls. Also included are pictures of military automobile traffic in Orléans, Versailles and Nancy, barbed wire blockades, devastated fields and forests, ruined houses at Mouilly (Meuse), soldiers' mealtimes at encampments, and several scenes of battle at Les Esparges. Opening with formally calligraphed title-page (with a photograph of a wooden cross), it includes three pages with finished captions and headings in ink; thereafter, the notes are in pencil, presumably to be completed in ink at a later date.