Robert Talbot Kelly - Egypt - 1912

A beautiful entry in A & C Black's classic travel titles, this one with 75 stunning tissue guarded 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, 1912. 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 with light wear to corners and spine ends. The outer joint of rare cover is slightly split. Internally the book is in good condition. Old inscription dated 1918 with neat ink on inside front cover page. Foxing marks to some pages and page edges throughout. The text 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.