Melba’s Gift Book of Australian Art and Literature (1915)

S$79.00

Melba’s Gift Book of Australian Art and Literature (1915)

S$79.00

Title: Melba’s Gift Book of Australian Art and Literature
Author: various, F.S. Peterson (ed)
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, probably 1915.
Condition: Hardcover, green cloth, firmly bound, all plates present, profusely illustrated in colour and black and white, some foxing of the interior.

“The entire profits from the sale of this book will be devoted by Madam Melba to the Belgian Relief Fund.”

Contributions from the following and more Australian writers and artists:

Norman Lindsay
George Lambert
Sydney Ure Smith
Lionel Lindsay
Fred C. McCubbin
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Charles Nuttall
Arthur Streeton
Ethel Turner
Henry Lawson
Mrs Aeneas Gunn
Louis Esson

Edited by F.S. Peterson

Coloured plates are mounted.