By Dorothy Menpes
London   Adam and Charles Black
11" by 8.5" x, 1-222pp.
A limited edition volume on Venice, written by Dorothy Menpes and profusely illustrated with lovely coloured plates and signed by Mortimer Menpes.
By Dorothy Menpes

1904 Venice

London   Adam and Charles Black
11" by 8.5" x, 1-222pp.
A limited edition volume on Venice, written by Dorothy Menpes and profusely illustrated with lovely coloured plates and signed by Mortimer Menpes.
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Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Pleasing Copy, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed

A deluxe edition limited to five hundred copies printed on large paper and profusely illustrated with lovely plates by Mortimer Menpes, signed by the artist. The text is by Dorothy Menpes.

A lovely tour of Venice, from first impressions, through the history, the architecture, the gondolas and gondoliers, and much more. 

Profusely illustrated throughout with one hundred coloured plated by mortimer Menpes. Signed by the artist to limitation page.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding, with titles and decorations in gilt to boards and spine. Externally very smart with minor shelfwear and slight bumping to head and tail of spine and rubbing to extremities. Slight handling marks to rear board, more visible due to the colour of the cloth. Signed by Mortimer Menpes to title page. Internally, firmly bound. Minor faint scattered spotting to fore edge, affecting only the occasional page. Collating complete with one hundred coloured plates by Mortimer Menpes.

Very Good

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