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Up For Sale Today is
Morocco
painted by
A. S. Forrest
described by
S. L. Bensusan
Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, UK. 1904. 231 pgs. Illustrated with seventy-four colour illustrations by A.S. Forrest, each under a captioned tissue guard. First Edition/First Printing.
Bound in pictorial cream yellow cloth boards designed By A. A. Turbayne with His "Scarab" Cipher with gilt titles present to spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Foxing present. Previous owner's name present to the front pastedown and the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present.
It's a parting book to Morocco. Bensusan was saying good bye to the old Morocco that he knew and loved before it's going to be swallowed by Western culture and made to be as any other place in the world. His writing sometimes boring, sometimes soothing, most of the time with some understanding of the natives, rarely annoyingly self righteous; but always always with this regret that travel will not be as it was, that he'll never be able to approach Marrakesch as slowly and as poetically as he did, that the people will change from this proud Moor into mix-up halfway Westerner, that the railway can't be held back too long and the first representative of Thomas Cook will soon make travel easier with the comfort as you know it at home.
A. & C. Black published ninety-two 20/- (20 shillings) series of Colour Books between 1901 and 1921. The Edwardian period was, perhaps, the peak time for book illustrations as, although photography was well established, the black and white images could not match the brilliance of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac and their contemporaries for colour illustrations. The A. & C. Black's 20/- series used water-colour artists and was the first to use the new "three colour" process for colour plates. The books were lavish in their use of colour illustrations with most volumes having 70 or more colour plates.
In the 20/- series the three elements of a book - the text; the illustrations and the cover - come together beautifully. The text was not closely associated with the illustrations, authors were not expected to describe the illustrations and were specifically required to produce "bright readable descriptions not overloaded with statistics". In the same way the publishers required of their artists "bright colouring". For many of the books the authors and artists seem to have not even been in contact!
The cover designs also mark out the 20/- series as special and were mostly the work of A.A. Turbayne and his colleagues at Carlton Studio. Many of the covers show the scarab motif of Turbayne (for example Kent ) or the CS monogram of Carlton studios.
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| Book formats and corresponding sizes | ||||||
| Name | Abbreviations | Leaves | Pages | Approximate cover size (width × height) | ||
| inches | cm | |||||
| folio | 2º or fo | 2 | 4 | 12 × 19 | 30.5 × 48 | |
| quarto | 4º or 4to | 4 | 8 | 9½ × 12 | 24 × 30.5 | |
| octavo | 8º or 8vo | 8 | 16 | 6 × 9 | 15 × 23 | |
| duodecimo or twelvemo | 12º or 12mo | 12 | 24 | 5 × 7⅜ | 12.5 × 19 | |
| sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
| octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
| trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
| quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
| sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo | 64º or 64mo | 64 | 128 | 2 × 3 | 5 × 7.5 | |
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