Description:
Blue cloth boards with black lettering are a bit rubbed. Binding solid.Text block is age-toned. Foreword by John Galsworthy. "In Aid of Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for soldier and sailors who has lost their limbs in the war." Stories contributed by authors such as J.M. Barrie, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Ernest Thompson Seton. 12 tipped-in color plates, reproductions of paintings by various well-known British artists. Numerous black & white illustrations throughout the text, also by well-known British artists. Publication date unmarked, but estimated 1915. Owner's name signed on 1st page. Handwritten initials bottom right corner page 160 pages.