KING ALBERT'S BOOK. A tribute to the Belgian king and people from representative men and women throughout the world.
Introduction by Hall Caine. Pp. 188, black & white frontispiece portrait, plus 24 plates (17 coloured, all but one hand-tipped), black & white text illustrations, music scores; demy 4to; cream cloth, lettered & decorated in green, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; bookplates of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, bookseller's sticker at foot of upper free endpaper, the free endpapers offset, 3 of the hand-tipped plates slightly creased, a little light foxing, offsetting, and occasional slight soiling; The Daily Telegraph/The Daily Sketch/The Glasgow Herald/ Hodder & Stoughton, London, n.d.[1914?]. *A wartime fund-raiser for the Daily Telegraph Belgian Fund. Numerous contributors, including Rudyard Kipling, Winston Churchill, Thomas Hardy and Rider Haggard. Illustrations by Edmund Dulac, Harrison Fisher, Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Maxfield Parrish, and others; plus, music by Elgar, Debussy, a.o. The Introduction is dated 1914. Item #151043
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