Lot No. 52: Menpes, Mortimer

World Pictures

Medium: Printed Book
Year: 1902
Size: 10.7 x 8.7 inches
Place: London

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20,000 - 30,000

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240-360

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Menpes, Mortimer

World Pictures

Published by: Adam & Charles Black.

No Date (1902).

Size: 27.5 x 22 cm (10.7 x 8.7 inches)

First edition, 4to., pp 332+X, 100 plates, red binding, title gilt on spine and front cover.

Good condition.

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 Roberts (1915).

Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman

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Lot No. 52: Menpes, Mortimer

World Pictures

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