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1923 India
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
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.
Condition
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
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