Princess Mary’s giftbook. Utgitt 1914

Bokens tittel: Princess Marys gift book

Utgitt1914

The Princess, under the aegis of her formidable mother, Queen Mary, wrote a personal introduction to Princess Mary’s Gift Book: all profits from the sale of the book would go to Queen Mary’s ‘Work for Women Fund’ which was set up to assist working women who found themselves in financial difficulties because of the war.

So what was in the Gift Book? It contained twenty stories or poems by well-known authors of the time; illustrated by fourteen paintings, photographed in full colour, and numerous black and white drawings, again by well-known artists.

For example, there is a short story by H. Rider Haggard, author of She and King Solomon’s Mines, in which explorer Allan Quartermain tells his old friends, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good, the heroic story of how the Zulu runner, Magepa the Buck, saved his baby grandson’s life at the cost of his own. The black and white drawings are by J Byam Shaw, artist and illustrator, who later founded the Byam Shaw School of Art.

Boken er tapet i rygg. Mange flotte illustrasjoner.

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