From Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since May 18, 2007
About this Item
A vibrantly illustrated edition of this India travel guide from Flora Annie Steel, illustrated with colour plates by Mortimer Menpes. A new edition of this work, revised by H. Clive Barnard.In the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with a sketch map of India and thirty-one colour plates by Australian-born painter and notable high society figure, Mortimer Menpes. Collated complete.Flora Annie Steel offers cultural commentary laced into this Edwardian travel guide to India. As a highly regarded writer on the country, Steel utilised her experience living in British India for twenty-two years.Steel worked with John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard Kipling's father, fostering Indian arts and crafts. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Rubbing and bumping to the extremities and the odd mark to the board. Joints slightly tender. Internally, firmly bound. Offsetting to the endpapers and a few scattered spots to the first and last few leaves. The odd spot to the work. Contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Good. Seller Inventory # 912Y62
Bibliographic Details
Title: India
Publisher: A & C Black, London
Publication Date: 1923
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: Mortimer Menpes
Condition: Good
Book Type: book
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