Author: G. Ralph Hall Caine; Ridgwell Cullum; et al.
Title: King Albert&Apos;S Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughout the World
Description: London, The Daily Telegraph, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this tribute to King Albert, with contributions by important public figures and illustrations by popular artists. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. A tribute to King Albert the Belgian King and the people of Belgium at the start of the First World War, with morale-boosting contributions from statesmen, artists, novelists and other important figures, including poems and prose from Edith Wharton, Jack London, Winston Churchill, Claude Debussy, Rudyard Kipling, H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy and G. K. Chesterton, as well as colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Maxfield Parrish, Edmund Dulac, and Kay Nielsen, among others. In publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally very smart, with just some faint marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, except for some offsetting and spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Arthur Rackham; Edmund Dulac; Maxfield Parrish; et al. Very Good .

Keywords: King Albert Belgium Belgian king Belgium Arthur Rackham; Edmund Dulac; Maxfield Parrish; et al.


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