1902 World Pictures

Description

Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

Exploring countries all across the globe, including Holland, Switzerland, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, India, Morocco, China and Palestine, amongst countless others.

Mortimer Menpes was a British painter, illustrator and printmaker. He created a form of colour etching, as well as publishing 'War Impressions', the first book to reproduce coloured art works faithfully, making him a pioneer of illustrated art books. He travelled prolifically to Japan, China, Burma, Mexico, India and Palestine, producing many art works inspired by and undertaken during his trips, and publishing a number of similar volumes detailing other travel destinations.

With one hundred colour plates as well as line drawings in the text by Mortimer Menpes.

Text written by his daughter, Dorothy Menpes.

Undated; dated from copies held on Jisc. A presumed first edition.