MORTIMER MENPES

Durbar Text by Dorothy Menpes London: Adams & Charles Black, First Edition, October 1903 Cover: Original decorated cloth binding 210 pp + 100 colour plates of Delhi Durbar of 1903 by Australian artist Mortimer Menpes Binding: Hardback
22 x 16 cm

India Text by Flora Annie Steel, Menpes visited India in 1903 to cover the Delhi Durbar organized by Lord Curzon. This is his pictorial record of a tour across India. Another book resulted in a 100-plate book on the Durbar itself [see previous lot] London: Adam & Charles Black, 1912 [Reprint of 1905 edition] Cover: Original decorated cloth binding 216 pp + 75 colour plates with tissue guards by Australian artist Menpes + folding map Binding: Hardback
22 x 16 cms

INDIA, first edition, text by Flora Annie Steel, with 75 coloured plates under captioned tissue guards by Mortimer Menpes, bound in red pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, with gilt peacock vignettes and a design in green and orange, Published by Adam & Charles Black, London, 1905