Robert Talbot Kelly - Egypt - 1910

Lovely illustrated work 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, 1910. 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 + 2 pages of Author’s books.

Condition
External covers in nice shape. Slightly marked and faded, och light wear to corners and spine ends. Internally the book is in good condition. No names or inscription. Faded spots to top edges of pages throughout, and foxing marks to the margin of pages and page edges. The text is fresh and plates are clean and bright (Please see pictures).

Robert Talbot Kelly
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.