MENPES, MORTIMER
WORLD PICTURES
First EditionNo Date: (1902)
Size: 27.5 x 22 cm (10.7 x 8.7 inches)
Published by: Adam & Charles Black., 4to., PP 332+X.
No. of Illustrations: 100 Illustrations
This Edition de Luxe is Limited to Five Hundred Copies for England, of which this in no. 111.
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).
BINDING: Red binding, title gilt on spine and front cover.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
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