| Description | Large green bound book with 229 pages. A lavish volume published to benefit the Charing Cross Hospital in 1899. Includes contributions from "distinguished writers, painters and composers". Edited and compiled by Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
Artists contributors: President of the Royal Academy Edward Poynter, Abbey Alton, G. Denholm Armour, Lewis Baumer, G.H Boughton. A H Buckland, Sir Philip Burne-Jones, Herbert Cole, Murray Cookesley, Max Cowper, Frank Dickee, Alfred East, G Granville Fell, Luke Fildes, Harry Furniss, F Goodall, Andrew C Gow, Peter Graham, The Marchioness of Granby, G.R Halkett, A.S Hartrick, L. Raven Hill, Colin Hunter, Sir James D. Linton, R W MacBeth, J MacWhirter, G Grenwille Manton, Mortimer Menpes, Alfred Parsons, Bernard Partridge, Val Prinsep, E T Reed, Briton Riviere, J J Shannon, Solomon J Solomon, Marcus Stone, E J Sullivan, J M Swan, L Alma Tadema, Sir John Tenniel, Leslie Ward, E A Waterlow, Edgar Wilson, W F Yeames.
Author contributors: Poet Laureate Alfred Austin, Arthur William Beckett, F. Anstey, William Archer, Sir Robert Ball, Max Beerbohm, Sir Walter Besant, Augustine Birrell, F C Burnand, Hall Caine, C Haddon Chambers, W L Courtney, John Davidson, Dr Arthur Conan Doyle, Sydney Grundy, W E Henley, John Oliver Hobbes, Dean Hole, Basil Hood, Anthony Hope, Violet Hunt, Henry Arthur Jones, Andrew Lang, Francis Lawley, Sidney Lee, F Frankfort Moore, Sir Lewis Morris, Gilbert Parker, Louis N Parker, W Pett-Ridge, Stephen Phillips, Arthur W Pinero, Lloyd Sanders, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Reverend Dr. Troutbeck, Humphry Ward, William Watson, Theodore Watts-Dunton, I Zangwill.
Musician contributors: Sir Frederick Bridge, Frederic Cowen, Edward Elgar, Edward German, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Hamish MacCunn, Sir Hubert Parry, Dr Villiers Standford, Sir Arthur Sullivan. |