£220
Menpes, Mortimer (ills) "The Durbar", text by Dorothy Menpes, Adam & Charles Black 1903, limited edition no.68/1000 copies signed by Mortimer Menpes, colour plates with lettered tissue guards, bkpl inside front board, decorated cloth and backstrip with gilt titles, front hinge is cracked, there is some staining and foxing to edges, silk ribbon marker, "India", text by Flora Annie Steel, Adam & Charles Black 1905, colour frontis, colour plates with lettered tissue guards, some foxing, offsetting to ffep, red decorated cloth with gilt titles and decorations, foxing to the front edge, "Worlds Children", Adam & Charles Black 1903, colour frontis, colour plates with lettered tissue guards, some foxing, blue decorated cloth and Talbot, Kelly R "Burma - Painted and Described by ...", Adam & Charles Black 1905, colour plates with lettered tissue guards, bkpl inside front board, lavishly decorated pictorial front board and backstrip (4)
The book 'Durbar' is in good condition overall. There is wear around the edges of some of its pages commensurate with age and one or two loose pages - there do not appear to be any missing pages. Please see additional catalogue photo showing wear around edges.
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