Author: Ligue Des Artistes Belges
Title: Belgian Art in Exile: A Representative Gallery of Modern Belgian Art
Description: London, Colour, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful collection of Belgian art, by the League of Belgian Artists, written in both French and English. The first edition. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. With a colour frontispiece, forty-five pages of unmounted plates, and forty mounted plates. Collated complete. A beautiful collection of plates from numerous Belgian artists. Written and compiled by the League of Belgian Artists, which consisted at the time of Belgian refugees in London. Artists include Jean Delville, Emile Claus, Alfred Bastian, Charles Mertens and more. Written in both French and English. Originally produced as a charity work to raise money for the benefit of The Belgian Red Cross, Convalescent Home for Belgian Soldiers and British Gifts for Belgian Soldiers. The half title page is present. With eight pages of advertisements to the rear of the volume. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart with some shelf wear to the edges. Marks to the boards. Discoloration to the edges. Hinges are strained. The odd mark to the paste-downs and free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age-toned but otherwise very bright and clean. The odd spot and mark throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

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