Art, Symbol & Imagination
Birds Going to the Race
Coloured elephants carry towers and rounded compartments filled with fantastically dressed birds. More birds walk and parade through the foreground between patterned borders. The facing caption names the company going to the race in the tale The King of the Birds.
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Jean de Bosschere. "Birds Going to the Race" [editorial title]. In Beasts and Men, Folk tales collected in Flanders and illustrated by Jean de Bosschère. Supplied illustrated edition from William Heinemann; Dodd, Mead & Company, undated edition, William Heinemann; Dodd, Mead & Company. Source scan leaf 161. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0258-0151
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
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Jean de Bosschere. Birds Going to the Race. Beasts and Men. Scan leaf 161. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0258-0151