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An Illustrated Travel Book on India

Lot No. 61: Mortimer Menpes

India

  • Printed book
  • 1912
  • 6 x 8.7 inches
  • London

Unsold (reserve not met)

Estimate

 30,000 -  45,000


Estimate US$

368-552

Ends at Mar 01, 2023 08:00 PM IST

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Mortimer Menpes

India

Second Edition, large 8vo, PP XII+ 216. Illustrated with 75 colour plates, text by F. A. Steel, Original pictorial binding with beautiful tree and peacock design on front cover. Title in yellow on front panel and spine. A Lovely production Mortimer Luddington Menpes, was an Australian-born artist, author, printmaker and illustrator, who in 1901 published War Impressions, the first of a series of books illustrated in colour from his sketches with in most cases a text written by his daughter Dorothy.
The series included Japan, a Record in Colour (1888, 1901), France, Spain and Morocco (1893), World?s Children (1903), The Durbar (1903), Venice (1904), India (text by F. A. Steel, 1905), The Thames (text by G. E. Mitton, 1906), Paris (1907), China (text by Sir H. A. Blake, 1909), The People of India (text by G. E. Mitton, 1910), Lord Kitchener (1915) and Lord, Published by Adam & Charles Black, London, 1912.
Size: 15.2 x 22 cm (6 x 8.7 inches)
Fine Condition
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Keywords: India, Indian colonial, Early Printed Book, Indian history & Travel, Plate book
Fine Condition
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