Robert Talbot Kelly - Egypt Painted and Described - 1903
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Description from the seller
Handsome Copy with 75 Stunning Colour Plates
The book is beautifully designed, and colourfully illustrated with coloured frontispiece, and 74 captioned tissue-guarded fine colour plates. Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1903. Publisher’s original decorative blue cloth board with the design of a lotus flower on the front board and on spine. Spine lettered in gilt. Top page edges gilt.
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Book Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 4 cm and Number of Pages: 246 including glossary and index + 2 pages of Author’s books.
Condition
External covers in nice shape, and with light wear and creases to corners, and to head and foot of spine. Internally the book is in very condition. No names or inscriptions. Pages are clean. The text is fresh. The attractive illustrations make this a truly beautiful title (Please see pictures).
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The Author
Robert George Talbot Kelly (1861–1934) was an English orientalist landscape and genre painter, author and illustrator. Kelly was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, the son of Irish landscape artist Robert George Kelly. He left school in 1876 to take up work in a firm of cotton traders, but was also taught art by his father, exhibiting under the name R. G. Kelly Jnr.
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Handsome Copy with 75 Stunning Colour Plates
The book is beautifully designed, and colourfully illustrated with coloured frontispiece, and 74 captioned tissue-guarded fine colour plates. Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1903. Publisher’s original decorative blue cloth board with the design of a lotus flower on the front board and on spine. Spine lettered in gilt. Top page edges gilt.
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Book Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 4 cm and Number of Pages: 246 including glossary and index + 2 pages of Author’s books.
Condition
External covers in nice shape, and with light wear and creases to corners, and to head and foot of spine. Internally the book is in very condition. No names or inscriptions. Pages are clean. The text is fresh. The attractive illustrations make this a truly beautiful title (Please see pictures).
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The Author
Robert George Talbot Kelly (1861–1934) was an English orientalist landscape and genre painter, author and illustrator. Kelly was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, the son of Irish landscape artist Robert George Kelly. He left school in 1876 to take up work in a firm of cotton traders, but was also taught art by his father, exhibiting under the name R. G. Kelly Jnr.
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Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Collected works, Illustrated, Travels
Book title
Egypt Painted and Described
Author/ Illustrator
Robert Talbot Kelly
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
1903
Height
23 cm
Edition
Illustrated Edition
Width
17 cm
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Adam and Charles Black
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Number of pages
246
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