A very RARE and beautiful book..."A Persian Journey: Being an Etcher s Impression of the Middle East" published by Jonathan Cape in 1931.... A smart first edition of this travelogue with illustrations by the author, Fred Richards, throughout. Illustrated with forty-eight plates. Collated complete. A detailed travelogue from the author's experiences in Persia, with chapters on the sights and sounds of Isfahan, opium, locusts, shopping, telegraphs, Persian gardens, the month of Muharrum, and much more. Written and illustrated by Fred Richards, a British etcher and artist who studied architecture at the Royal Collage of Art and traveled widely. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Uncommon. Very attractive illustrations!!!!