THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ITS ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION, A SYNOPSIS OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ARMY IN THE SPANISH WAR, AND SOME REMARKS ON OUR MILITARY NECESSITIES

[Akron, Oh.: The Werner Company, 1899].. 103pp. plus twenty-five chromolithographs. Oblong folio. Original pictorial cloth. Corners bumped, cloth edgeworn and spotted, hinges weak. Internally clean and fresh. Wagner's lavish work contains numerous large chromolithographs depicting the history of the army of the United States from the American Revolution to the Spanish-American War, with depictions of all. It also serves as a useful guide for identifying military dress throughout the first hundred years of the U.S. Army. The Werner Company of Akron, Ohio was a leading innovator in new printing technology at the end of the century. According to McGrath, the plates were created by combining the primary colors and sienna in careful mixtures, allowing far fewer color stones than would have traditionally been used. "Not only are the plates technically interesting, but three are from drawings by Henry Alexander Ogden" - McGrath. The result of this trichromatic chromolithographic technique, while somewhat blotchy in appearance, probably considerably lowered the cost of printing such a plate. Wagner's work was published in a one-volume edition which contained forty-two plates, including seventeen of the U.S. Navy with accompanying text. It was also published in a two-volume set, with one volume for the army (as here) and one for the navy. McGRATH, pp.149, 163, 172. BENNETT, p.109.