Cassell's History of the Russo-Japanese War (Special Subscriber's Edition)
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED. Cassell's History of the Russo-Japanese War. London: Cassell and Company, Limited, [1904–5]. 4 vols.
4to. Original publisher's red cloth, gilt titling and decorations to spines. [Pagination to be confirmed per volume.] Illustrated throughout with photographs, maps, plans, portraits, and colour frontispieces to each volume. Special edition, prepared for subscription only and not available through general booksellers.
The war that broke out between Japan and Russia in February 1904 announced itself, to those paying attention, as something new in the history of the world. Japan had been a feudal agrarian society within living memory; forty years of extraordinary self-transformation had produced a modern industrial state with a modern army and navy trained and equipped to the highest contemporary standards. Russia was one of the great European powers, vast in territory and manpower, backed by the full weight of imperial tradition. When Japan struck — in a surprise torpedo attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur — most Western observers expected a relatively brief demonstration of Russian strength. What followed shattered that expectation entirely. In the land campaigns at Liaoyang, on the Sha-ho, and in the decisive Battle of Mukden — the largest land battle in history to that point — the Japanese army proved itself the equal of anything in the world. At Tsushima in May 1905, Admiral Tōgō's fleet annihilated the Russian Baltic Squadron after its extraordinary voyage halfway round the globe. The war ended with the Treaty of Portsmouth, brokered by Theodore Roosevelt, and the strategic shock reverberated through every capital in Europe and Asia: a non-European power had defeated a European great power comprehensively, in both arms of war, and nothing in the calculus of world politics was quite the same again.
Cassell published this history as the war unfolded, as a subscription special edition not available through the general book trade, lavishly illustrated with photographs, maps, plans, and portraits drawn from correspondents and official sources. The colour frontispieces in each volume add visual distinction to what is already a substantial and finely produced contemporary account of one of the pivotal conflicts of the early twentieth century.
Very good. Bindings of Vols. I and IV a little loose with some signatures slipping. Rubbing to creases, edges, and corners of all volumes. Mild wear to spine ends throughout. Contents very good. Foxing and toning to endpapers of each volume with mild foxing along edges; otherwise clean and bright. Plates, maps, and colour frontispieces present and in excellent order throughout all four volumes.
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Catalogue Number: HH000462
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CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED. Cassell's History of the Russo-Japanese War. London: Cassell and Company, Limited, [1904–5]. 4 vols.
4to. Original publisher's red cloth, gilt titling and decorations to spines. [Pagination to be confirmed per volume.] Illustrated throughout with photographs, maps, plans, portraits, and colour frontispieces to each volume. Special edition, prepared for subscription only and not available through general booksellers.
The war that broke out between Japan and Russia in February 1904 announced itself, to those paying attention, as something new in the history of the world. Japan had been a feudal agrarian society within living memory; forty years of extraordinary self-transformation had produced a modern industrial state with a modern army and navy trained and equipped to the highest contemporary standards. Russia was one of the great European powers, vast in territory and manpower, backed by the full weight of imperial tradition. When Japan struck — in a surprise torpedo attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur — most Western observers expected a relatively brief demonstration of Russian strength. What followed shattered that expectation entirely. In the land campaigns at Liaoyang, on the Sha-ho, and in the decisive Battle of Mukden — the largest land battle in history to that point — the Japanese army proved itself the equal of anything in the world. At Tsushima in May 1905, Admiral Tōgō's fleet annihilated the Russian Baltic Squadron after its extraordinary voyage halfway round the globe. The war ended with the Treaty of Portsmouth, brokered by Theodore Roosevelt, and the strategic shock reverberated through every capital in Europe and Asia: a non-European power had defeated a European great power comprehensively, in both arms of war, and nothing in the calculus of world politics was quite the same again.
Cassell published this history as the war unfolded, as a subscription special edition not available through the general book trade, lavishly illustrated with photographs, maps, plans, and portraits drawn from correspondents and official sources. The colour frontispieces in each volume add visual distinction to what is already a substantial and finely produced contemporary account of one of the pivotal conflicts of the early twentieth century.
Very good. Bindings of Vols. I and IV a little loose with some signatures slipping. Rubbing to creases, edges, and corners of all volumes. Mild wear to spine ends throughout. Contents very good. Foxing and toning to endpapers of each volume with mild foxing along edges; otherwise clean and bright. Plates, maps, and colour frontispieces present and in excellent order throughout all four volumes.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000462
