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    By Flora Annie Steel
    London   A. & C. Black
    9.5" by 7" xii, 1-216pp
    Mortimer Menpes' beautifully illustrated travel work on India, with striking colour plates showcasing the country throughout the work.
    By Flora Annie Steel

    1917 India

    London   A. & C. Black
    9.5" by 7" xii, 1-216pp
    Mortimer Menpes' beautifully illustrated travel work on India, with striking colour plates showcasing the country throughout the work.
    £60.00
    : 1.5kgs / : 974F20
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    Description

    Colour Plates, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    The fourth impression of this work, which was first published in 1905.

    Mortimer Menpes presents a beautiful study of India, an in-depth travel work looking into the rich history and culture of the country.

    Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and seventy-four colour plates, and with a folding map to the rear.

    Collated, complete.

    With text by Flora Annie Steel.

    Bookplate to front pastedown.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Boards bright, with dust wrapper back strip lightly age toned. Loss of cloth to back strip head towards rear joint. Front hinge lightly strained but firmly held, with rear hinge strained and somewhat tender. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright, with instances of foxing. Folding map age toned, with minor losses to fore edge.

    Good

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