Princess Marie-jose’s Children’s Book.
£35.00
Publisher
Cassell and Company, Ltd. for the Vestiaire Marie-Jose.
Place
London
Date
[1916]
Synopsis
With sixteen colour plates and a profusion of black-and-white illustrations.
Item Description
Large 8vo. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. 127 + [1] pp. Bound in quarter blue cloth spine over paper covered pictorial boards. Some wear to extremities, including edges and corners and scattered marginal foxing; otherwise a very good copy. 1916 gift inscription on verso of first free endpaper. Illustrated by photogravure portrait frontispiece, protected by tissue guard, by 16 colour (including by Mabel Lucie Attwell and W. Heath Robinson) and 8 black and white plates (including by C. R. W. Nevinson), by 32 text figures and vignettes, by initials and by facsimile letter. Decorated by ornamental title border. Children's book with text and illustrations by numerous writers and artists, sponsored by Princess Marie-Jose of Belgium (1906-2001), daughter of King Albert, who was evacuated to England during the war and was, for a brief period in 1946, the last queen-consort of Italy before the monarchy was abolished. The aim of the book was ' to help the little Belgian babies over the sea to get milk and clothes' (letter signed by Carmel Haden Guest, the editor). The volume includes contributions by John Galsworthy, Walter de la Mare (two poems) and the four page (13-16) article, Master Anthony and The Zeppelin, written and drawn by H. G. Wells.
[Stock No. 28493]
