WORLD PICTURES BY MORTIMER & DOROTHY MENPES 1903 LEATHER BINDING

WORLD PICTURES BY MORTIMER & DOROTHY MENPES 1903 LEATHER BINDING

£295.00

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[MENPES, MORTIMER; MENPES, DOROTHY (text)]. World Pictures. London: A. & C. Black, MCMIII. [1903].

Second printing; leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (23cm x 16cm x 5.5cm); pp. x, 332; English text; handsomely bound in half morocco gilt; marbled boards; t.e.g.; half-title; 100 full-page illustrations with captioned tissue-guards (50 in colour and 50 printed in monotone on a beige underlay) + 400 line drawings throughout within the text. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, some light rubbing to boards and extremities, the interior very well-preserved with some light spotting to fore edge, small previous owner signature to front endpaper.

Notes: A wonderful book from Black's popular travel book series. Finely written and with exceptional illustrations by Mortimer and Dorothy Menpes. The tour covers England, Holland, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Morocco, Greece, Turkey, The Holy Land, Egypt, South Africa, India, Kashmir, Burma, China, Japan and Mexico.