Title: Princess Mary’s Gift Book
Author: Various
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton. No date, research reveals it to be 1914.
Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing to cover, fraying to spine. Tanned edges, minor tanning and foxing to pages. Beautifully illustrated with 14 tipped in colour plates including frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations.
About the book:
Produced to raise money for the Queen’s “Work for Women” fund during World War 1. Comprising 20 stories and beautifully illustrated with 14 tipped in colour plates including frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations, by various well-known authors and illustrations.
Includes stories by:
Arthur Conan Doyle
Rudyard Kipling
J. M. Barrie
H. Rider Haggard
and illustrations by:
Edmund Dulac
Arthur Rackham
E. J. Detmold
R. Talbot Kelly
W. Russell Flint
