Bidspirit auction | Mortimer Menpes

Mortimer Menpes - 'India'. An Illustrated Travel Book on India India by Mortimer Menpes 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 Provenance: Keywords: India, Indian colonial, Early Printed Book, Indian history & Travel, Plate book