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Adam and Charles Black, London, 1907 Small 8vo in red cloth. Good condition: covers faded and stained, End papers foxed. 24 full color illustrations plus line drawings in the text.. Hardcover.

Adam & Charles Black;, 1909. Hardcover. Cover has some wear and is sun faded, bumped corners foxing throughout but the text is clean and the illustrations very nice without a dust jacket.. 185pp. many illustrations. Red cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine and top edge gilt.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mortimer Menpes, with 75 full-page illustrations in colour and line drawing in the text. Decorated orange cloth boards. Front inner hinge cracked. Browning on black end paper, foxing on some pages. No jacket. The cover has some fading on the spine and back edge, some marks on the back, some wear at the top of the spine including chipping and a small tear on the front hinge.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907 . First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 8" by 5.5". Mortimer Menpes. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated travel guide to Paris. First edition of Paris in the original publisher's cloth binding. A illustrated study and travel guidebook by Mortimer Menpes, with text by his daughter, Dorothy Menpes. An uncommon edition. Mortimer Menpes was an Australian-British painter, printmaker, illustrator and author. Illustrated with twenty four colour plates and line drawings throughout the text. The plate facing page 128 is present but detached. Collated, complete. With six pages of advertisements to the rear.Prior owner's ink inscriptions to the first free endpaper dated 1934. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, boards and spine are rather faded. There is some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. There are some marks to the boards. Prior owner's ink inscriptions to the first free endpaper dated 1934. Internally,… Read More

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. 1st edition. Leather. Very Good +. 1st edition. A Very Good + copy. 8vo., 185 pp., illustrated with 75 full page color illustrations and line drawings in text. Bound in half light green leather and light blue-green cloth over boards, with gilt title on the spine (deluxe edition?). top edge gilt. Spine sunned to an even brown. Text pages of a high grade artisanal paper. All plates with a captioned guard. A handsome volume. Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855 - 1938) was an Australian-born British painter, author, printmaker and illustrator.

, 185 pages illustrated with 75 full page colour plates, including frontispiece and line drawings in text

, xii 1-185 pages, contains 75 colour plates with descriptions

London: Adam and Charles Black , 1909. First edition. Cloth. Good. 11" by 8.5". Mortimer Menpes . A limited edition topographical work on the locations and culture of Paris, with numerous illustrations throughout by Mortimer Menpes. The Edition-de-Luxe, strictly limited to 500 copies of which this is number 40. Published simultaneously with the first trade edition. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with gilt detail. Printed on handmade paper. With a colour frontispiece and seventy-four colour plates, painted by Mortimer Menpes. Collated complete. A topographical work on Paris, discussing the fashion, streets, artists, cafes, restaurants and more. Written by Dorothy Menpes, the daughter of Mortimer Menpes. Mortimer Menpes was a British painter, author, printmaker and illustrator. He helped pioneer a new way of reproducing coloured artworks in printed books. The half title page is present. In the publisher's original, full cloth binding. Externally, smart with… Read More

London:: Adam and Charles Black,, 1909.. First edition; Edition de Luxe, No. 234 of 500 copies.. later 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards; gilt paneled spine; t.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf; original cloth bound in.. Leather scuffed at edges of boards and at tiny spots at joints; clean, tight and sound.. 4to,. With 75 full-page illustrations in colour and line drawings in the text..

London: Adam and Charles Black. 1909. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Soiling to front and back panels. Spine faded from sun. Bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing to page edges, and most notable to pastedowns and end pages. Foxing to pages' upper edges throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: A&C Black, 1909 3000 copies. Size 228x159mm.
xii, 186pp gilt top edge.
75 full page illustrations in colour captioned to the tissues, together with line drawings within the text.
The UK edition was published by John Grant, booksellers of Edinburgh while retaining the A&C Black imprint.
Light fade to spine and the usual light ageing to the end papers otherwise very clean throughout.

LONDON: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, 1909 Ivory Buckram Boards with red line blocked decorations to spine and front board with gilt titles and fleur- de- lis. 275 x 220 mm approx.Gilt top edge others uncut, xii + 188 pp, Colour Frontis with captioned guard + 74 other such all as called for+ line drawings in text. No 250 of the de-Luxe edition limited to 500 copies on hand made paper. 1909 VG/ Poor (Book- Mild to moderate general shelf wear/soiling, hint of foxing to free end papers, no previous owner name or insc. binding sound. Dust Jacket - faded to spine ,heavy rubbing with nicks and some loss now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve).

1909. London, Adam And Charles Black, 1909. Large 8vo. Publisher's red cloth panelled and decorated in black to spine and upper cover and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed with dust-wrapper, not known to the bibiographer; pp. xii, 185. [3]; with a total of 75 fine coloured plates with captioned guards and line drawings throughout the text; the cloth, as to be expected very fresh, wrapper with a few marginal flaws and darkened to spine; internally a little spotted, and with offsetting from endpapers. First edition. Inman 64.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Binding is somewhat dulled and soiled, darkened at the spine. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block which is unevenly opened exagerating the effect. Gift inscription to the first blank with age-tanning to those. The contents complete, clean and tight overall but with the hinges just a touch weak in a couple of places. . ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 2.5kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### First edition (first printing). Hardback. Physically 11” x 8½” (2.5 kg); (xii) 185pp; Number 197 of a limited printing (Edition-de-lux on hand made paper) run of 500 copies. Includes: Line drawings; Colour plates (under tissue guards with descriptive letterpress) (75); Colour frontispiece (tissue-guarded with descriptive letter-press);… Read More

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11" by 8.5" . Mortimer Menpes . A limited edition topographical work on the locations and culture of Paris, with numerous illustrations throughout by Mortimer Menpes. The Edition-de-Luxe, strictly limited to 500 copies of which this is number 441. Published simultaneously with the first trade edition. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with gilt detail. Printed on handmade paper. With a colour frontispiece and seventy-four colour plates, painted by Mortimer Menpes. Collated complete. A topographical work on Paris, discussing the fashion, streets, artists, cafes, restaurants and more. Written by Dorothy Menpes, the daughter of Mortimer Menpes. Mortimer Menpes was a British painter, author, printmaker and illustrator. He helped pioneer a new way of reproducing coloured artworks in printed books. The half title page is present. With a bookplate for one, 'James Milne Cooper', to the front… Read More

London : Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly marked), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers foxed, pp. xii; 185, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards; occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper. A fine illustrated work by Adelaide-born artist Mortimer Menpes, with text written by his daughter Dorothy Whistler Menpes. Mortimer Menpes moved to England at the age of twenty where he would enjoy a successful career in painting and etching. In 1880 he embarked on a sketching tour of Brittany, where he befriended James MacNeil Whistler, becoming his pupil and close associate, and learning the art of etching from the master. Menpes became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (RE) in 1881, Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in 1885, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) in 1897 and Royal Institute of… Read More

A. & C. Black, London., 1909. First edition: number 435 of 500 copies on handmade paper. Quarto. pp xii, 185. Seventy-five colour plates with captioned tissue guards, as well as pen drawings as headpieces, tailpieces etc. Cream buckram decorated in red and gilt. Top edge gilt. Some faint spotting to endpapers. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. A spectacular copy.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Fine. Adam & Charles Black, London 1909, 21x27,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur. - Edition originale, un des 500 exemplaires numérotés sur ""hand-made paper"", seuls grands papiers. Reliure en pleine percaline sable, dos lisse orné de motifs typographiques rouge façon sanguine, premier plat ornementé d'un jeu de filets verticaux rouges et de six fleurs de lys dorées, tête dorée. Ouvrage orné de 75 illustrations hors-texte en couleurs de Mortimer Menpes. Très rares rousseurs affectant essentiellement la première garde. Agréable exemplaire. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]