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Title

BRITTANY.

By Mortimer Menpes

Text by Dorothy Menpes.

[SIGNED Numbered De Luxe Limited Edition – Full Decorative Cloth Binding – 75 Illustrations]

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Author

Mortimer Menpes [Illust.]

Dorothy Menpes

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Year of Publication

1905

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Publisher

London: Adam & Charles Black

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For full description see below - after all photographs

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Description:

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1905. De Luxe Signed Numbered Limited Edition. Signed by the Artist.

With half-title, 75 plates, most in colour, after original watercolours by Mortimer Menpes.

Text printed tissue guards describing the illustration. Original cream, colour & gilt-stamped cloth, page top edge is gilt, others untrimmed, spine very darkened and worn, rubbed and faded, wear to extremities & some spotting and marks to covers, end papers foxed, internally good with some closed tears to the tissue guards.

Limited Edition, One of 350 De Luxe numbered limited edition copies numbered 323.

x, 254pp.

Approximately 11 inches tall.

 

Condition Report

Externally

  • Spine – fair condition – very faded gilt titles, very darkened and faded spine, bruised top and tail, fraying to the top and base.
  • Joints – fair condition – rubbed and worn.
  • Corners – fair condition – bumped and worn.
  • Boards – good condition – full cloth decorated in gilt and colour, some marks, faded to the front, marked to the rear.
  • Page edges – good condition – top edge gilt darkened, rest uncut, tanned and foxed.
  • See above and photos.

Internally

  • Hinges – good condition – strong.
  • Paste downs – good condition – tanned.
  • End papers – good condition – tanned, pencil annotation.
  • Title – good condition – lightly tanned.
  • Pages – good condition – frontispiece, 74 further illustrations, lightly tanned pages, foxing to the tissue guards, straining to some of the gutters.
  • Binding – fair condition – slightly faded.
  • See photos.

Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1905
Binding: Hardback

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