1911 Impressions of Mexico with Brush and Pen

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

The very scarce first edition, first impression.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen tipped in colour plates from Barton. Collated, complete.

Artist Mary Barton provides a charmingly illustrated narrative of her early twentieth century travels in Mexico, in which she describes Mexico City, Necaxa, Patzcuaro, and other notable destinations.

With the armorial bookplate of Lionel de Rothschild, a British banker and Conservative politician best remembered as the creator of Exbury Gardens. In 1917, he co-founded the anti-Zionist League of British Jews.