King Albert’s Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughout the World.
1914. London: The Daily Telegraph, 1914.
4to, 188 pages. Plates. Cream cloth decorated and lettered in green. Binding soiled, wear to tips and edges.
§ Illustration by Rackham on p.64. First edition, with contributions by William Archer, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Arnold Bennett, Henri Bergson, Sarah Bernhardt, G.K. Chesterton, Winston Churchill, Marie Corelli, Walter Crane, Claude Debussy, Edmund Dulac, Sir Edward Elgar, Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, David Lloyd-George, Jack London, Claude Monet, Fridtjof Nansen, William Nicholson, Kay Nielsen, Baroness Orczy, Emmeline Pankhurst, Maxfield Parrish, Camille Saint-Saens, Edith Wharton, etc. Arthur Rackham contributed a dramatic full-page watercolor entitled “Unconquerable”. Item #124049
Price: $15.00