[First World War Programme]

Matinee in Aid of the Australian Wounded Soldiers. His Majesty's Theatre, Friday, November 19th, 1915 [cover title]

London, J. Miles & Co. Ltd., Printers to His Majesty The King, 1915.

Large quarto, [12] pages with a large tipped-in illustration ('"War" from the bust by Bertram Mackennal'); all pages have a green and gold border of sprays of flowering wattle.

(Detached) decorated wrappers foxed and discoloured, with later tape reinforcement to the spine; head of the rear cover and the last two leaves waterstained; notwithstanding, a decent copy of a rare item.

The front cover of the programme is inscribed and signed by 'Corpl W. Vaughan Edwards, 2nd Batt AIF, KGH London'. 1844 Corporal Edwards was recuperating at the King George Hospital, London after receiving gunshot wounds in action at Gallipoli on 6 August 1915.

Item #125953

Price (AUD): $150.00
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