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New York: The MacMillan Company. Poor; The cover boards are very warped and worn, and there is other age . wear.. 1903. Hardcover. 210 pages .

Read & Co. Travel, 2020. Paperback. New. 434 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.02 inches.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1903. First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 9" by 6.5". Mortimer Menpes. A first edition of this brightly illustrated work on the Durbar. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and ninety-nine colour plates with tissue guards. Collated complete. A detailed commentary on the Durbar, with chapters on the state entry, the proclamation, the review of the troops, different camps, the Viceroy, Lord Kitchener, and more. Illustrated by Mortimer Menpes, an Australian-born British painter, author, printmaker and illustrator. Written by Dorothy Menpes, a British writer and the daughter of Mortimer. In the original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, worn with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Splits in the cloth to the joints with light fraying. Loss to the head of the spine with part of the cloth detaching from the binding. Minor loss to the tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages… Leer más

Adam & Charles Black 1903. FIRST EDITION, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xii + 210pp, illus/colour plates- not counted, VG- (heavy chipping & bruising to spine extrems, 3cm crack to top extrem of spine, light scuffing to corners, light chafing & discolouration to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, moderate cracking to gutters, some plates detached, moderate foxing to pages sporadically throughout)

Published by Adam and Charles Black in London,1903, in 8 (23 x 16,5 cm) 210 pages. 100 color plates engraved and printed at the Menpes Press under direction of Mortimer Menpes. Hardcover original cream cloth, decorated in red, blue and gilt to a design incorporating a tree and peacocks within a floral border, design partly reprised to spine, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed. +++++++ Book written by Dorothy Whistler Flower (Born Menpes) illustrated by his father Mortimer Menpes on the Delhi Durbar that was an illustrated record of the commemoration in Delhi of the coronation of King Edward VII. The first Durbar was held in 1877 to proclaim Queen Victoria as Empress of India. This is the second Durbar to proclaim Edward VII as king, in 1902 but was not attended by the King either. It was not until the 1911 Durbar, when George V and Queen Mary went to India, was the Emperor and his Empress proclaimed in person to the people of India. Mortimer Menpes painted in oil and watercolour… Leer más

Published by Adam & Charles Black, 1903. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Menpes, Mortimer. Good condition with no wrapper. White cloth with orange and blue decorations to spine and front cover. Gilt titles also to front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. 100 colour plates. A. & C. Black Colour Book. De Luxe limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies, signed by the artist. xii and 210 numbered pages. SIGNED by the artist (no dedication) and numbered 613 (of 1,000). Boards unevenly heavily browned and stained, scuffed to rear board. Fraying to cloth at base of spine. Joints cracked. Binding is still tight. All plates present and clean. A few pale foxspots and margin marks to contents.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1903. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Mortimer Menpes. Edition De Luxe limited to one thousand copies, this hand numbered 86 and signed by Mortimer Menpes. Original cream cloth binding, highly decorated front and spine. The spine is darkened and there is a closed tear along the side at the top edge. Further light discoloration to boards, but remaining robust and attractive. Hinge and text block sound, though webbing revealed along back joint. No inscriptions or paste-downs. End papers a bit spotty, thereafter pages smooth clean and bright. All100 colour illustrated plates present, each with captioned tissue-guard. There is a 1 inch closed tear to the bottom edge of the half-title page. Closed page edge rough cut, and a little grubby. Overall an extremely well preserved book. May incur additional postage charges overseas.

London: A & C Black. Very Good. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. A bit of tanning to spine. Boards with the slightest of bumping to corners. Bookplate. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally a handsome and tight copy. ; A coronation in British India. Very rare. 100 tissue guarded illustrations from watercolors by the famous artist Mortimer Menpes. Gilt lettering. Tan cloth boards with ornate design in brick red, blue and gilt. Top edge gilt. 20 Shilling Series. Inman 18; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii, 210 pages .

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Menpes, Mortimer. Signed. Original ivory, decorative cloth. Gilt titles to spine and front board.Bevelled edges. Top edge gilt. xii + 210 pp. 100 full page, colour illustrations. Copy no. 534 / 1000 of the De Luxe Edition, SIGNED by Mortimer Menpes on the verso of the half-title page. Cloth a bit soiled as per usual. Front hinge cracked and repaired. Some foxing. Pencil name of Anton Van Vouw on the front, free end-paper. 100 full page, colour illustrations after paintings by Menpes to illustrate the Great Durbar to mark the accession to the throne of Edward VII and his installation as Emporor of India. A most beautifully illustrated work. solid binding. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

1903. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1903. 4to. Publisher's original cream cloth, elaborately decorated in red, blue and gilt to a design incorporating a tree and peacocks within a floral border, design partly reprised to spine, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed; pp. xii, 210; 100 coloured plates, each with captioned tissue-guard; cloth a little darkened, marked and rubbed at extremities, a little spotting and offseting to and from endpapers, otherwise good. Edition De Luxe, number 364 of 1000 copies, signed by Menpes. This is a fine documentation of the most elaborate Durbar the Empire ever staged in India. It was held to celebrate the succession of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra as Emperor and Empress of India. Lord Curzon oversaw the two-week festivities which took place in a tented city, with a temporary light railway bringing spectators and dignitaries from Dheli. The illustrations have been 'engraved' and printed at the Menpes Press under Mr. Menpes's direction. Inman 228.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903. First Edition, LIMITED ISSUE DELUXE OF 1000 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST of this beautiful A & C Black title. This copy WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR PAINTING SIGNED by Mortimer Menpes at the front of the book on a full sheet. With 100 wonderful plates in full colour by Mortimer Menpes with captioned tissue guards. 4to, in publisher's deluxe binding of ivory cloth with elaborate decorations in Delhi style in gilt, red and blue on the upper cover and spine, the decoration featuring golden peacocks and a magnificent flowering tree, also lettered in gilt on both cover and spine, t.e.g. xii, 210 pp. A handsome copy, showing some toning and evidence of age to the white cloth, predominately to the spine panel as is the norm, the text-block and plates beautifully preserved, the original watercolour painting also in excellent condition. FIRST EDITION DELUXE WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR PAINTING ON A FULL SIZE SHEET, OF THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK OF ONE OF… Leer más