The Queen's gift book : in aid of Queen Mary's convalescent auxiliary hospitals for soldiers and sailors who have lost their limbs in the war
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Type of record: Book
Title: The Queen's gift book : in aid of Queen Mary's convalescent auxiliary hospitals for soldiers and sailors who have lost their limbs in the war
Classmark: Bamji Collection/QUE
Additional creator(s): Mary Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain (1867-1953) (Other); Galsworthy, John (1867-1933) (Other); Barrie, J M (1860-1937) (Other); Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930) (Other)
Related people: Mary; Galsworthy, John; Barrie, J. M; Doyle, Arthur Conan
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1915?]
Language: English
Size and medium: 160 p., [12] leaves of col. mounted plates (inc. front.)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/329807
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002535239705181
Description
Introduction by John Galsworthy.
Illustrated with three colour process plates tipped onto cream coloured leaves, surrounded by blue borders, by artists including Arthur Rackham and William Heath Robinson. Frontispiece portrait of Queen Mary, from painting by William Llewllyn, in Buckingham Palace. Line photoengravings by Lewis Baumer, J.H. Hartley, E.H. Shepard, L. Raven-Hill, S. Abbey, Harry Rountree, G. Barrow, Arch. Webb, Arthur Rackham, Fred Pegram, Edmund Blampied, Gordon Browne, Claude A. Shepperson, C.E. Brock, William Heath Robinson, Charles Robinson, Leo Cheney, Ernest Thompson Seton and Leopold Bates.
Anthology of prose and poetry by authors including J.M. Barrie, John Buchan, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jerome K. Jerome and Mrs. Humphry Ward.
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