Illustration for chapter 12 of 'The War of the Worlds'

Illustration for the French translation and first French illustrated edition of of The War of the Worlds (La guerre des mondes). Printed in France in 1906. Only 500 copies were printed of this edition, each signed by the Brazilian artist, Corrêa.

The caption for this illustration reads "Ils avaient passé tout près de moi et deux d’entre eux étaient penchés sur les ruines écumeuses et tumultueuses de leur camarade.
Les deux autres étaient debout dans l’eau auprès de lui, l’un à deux cents mètres de moi, l’autre vers Laleham. Ils agitaient violemment les générateurs du Rayon Ardent et le jet sifflant frappait en tous sens et de toutes parts."

The original English language story reads "They had passed by me, and two were stooping over the frothing, tumultuous ruins of their comrade. The third and fourth stood beside him in the water, one perhaps two hundred yards from me, the other towards Laleham. The generators of the Heat-Rays waved high, and the hissing beams smote down this way and that. "