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Lovely Art Nouveau design of this wonderfully illustrated book, with 75 colour plates painted by Menpes

In this exquisite; Dorothy Menpes provides a written memoir of the unique city of Venice to accompany Mortimer Menpes’s gorgeous oils and watercolours. The illustrations by Mortimer Menpes include street scenes, portraits of workers & children, gardens and landscapes.

Item Description
A fascinating travel classic book in the original cloth bindings. The book is wonderfully illustrated with 75 striking full page colour plates, captioned on the tissue guards by Mortimer Menpes (Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855 – 1938), was an Australian-born British painter, author, printmaker and illustrator. After serving as an illustrator during the Boar War; Menpes travelled widely, visiting Burma, Egypt, France, India, Italy, Japan, Kashmir, Mexico, Morocco, and Spain. Many of his paintings were published in various travel books by Adam and Charles Black, but none are so beautiful a collection of paintings, subject and writings with love as VENICE). With text by Dorothy Menpes.
 
Published by Adam and Charles Black, London (1912). Publisher’s original blue boards, decorated in a fancy Art Nouveau style all over the upper cover and spine in gilt, featuring floral urns or fountains, multi-ruled and decorated borders and gilt emblems of the Menpes. Top page edges gilt.

Book Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 4 cm and Number of Pages: 222

Condition
The book is beautifully bound, designed and illustrated. Firm and well bound copy. External covers are clean and in nice shape, slightly faded and with light wear to corners and edges, and minor rubbings to spine ends. Internally the book is in very good condition. No names or inscriptions. Pages are clean, and unmarked. The text is fresh. The attractive illustrations make this a truly beautiful title (Please see pictures).


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