India by Steel, Flora Annie - 1916

A & C Black Ltd: A & C Black Ltd. 1917. hardcover. B038971; 220 pp, Bumped, some pp taped, (A333) hardcover, good contents & covers, edge wear on spine, corners .

Adam & Charles Black, 1929. Book. Very Good. hardback. 2nd Edition. hardback, octavo, some mild spotting else a very good tightly bound copy in a dust wrapper that is chipped and has some small loss at head and tail of spine, now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, neat signature of a previous owner, the text remains free of markings, sketch map, colour plates by Mortimer Menpes, xii + 220pp.

A&C Black, 1923. A&C Black, 1923, 8vo., 220 pages. Color frontis with additional color illustrations. Book bound in a blue cloth, no dust jacket, gilt lettering. Book in good+ condition.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, UK : A & C Black, 1929. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Menpes. 2nd edition, 2nd printing (with additional illustrations). xii, 220pp, with colour plate frontispiece and 31 further colour plates, all by Mortimer Menpes. Map. In blue cloth-covered boards with embossed decorations, top edge sprayed blue, gilt titles on spine. Girls Public Day School Trust emblem gilded onto rear board. 8vo. Boards and mildly rubbed and rounded at corners, more heavily rubbed at the ends of a sunned spine. Prize presentation plate, dated 1935 on front pastedown. Some faint, occasional spotting on prelims else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Flora Annie Steel's engaging account of India, with an additional chapter bringing the work up to date for publication in 1929. A hard to find title.

London: A & C Black, 1912. Book. Illus. by Mortimer Menpes 75 Full Page, Tissue Captioned Watercolors. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 2nd Printing. 8 Vo. Publisher's decorative cloth with gilt peacocks and India design on the front coverand spine, same as the first edition. Pages 216 with index. Ms. Steel, who lived long and wrote often on India, comments on history of Rajputs and Moghuls, India's many religions, arts and crafts, architecture, status of women, and the mutiny of 1857 among other topics. Very readable, with an understandable colonial bias in the eyes of the reader a Century later. Inside, clean and tight, with a hint of foxing that does not affect the plates. Menpes, a noted Australian illustrator, evokes the India colors and scene beautifully, all plates clean. Inman 38..

London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1916. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6.5". Mortimer Menpes. A beautifully illustrated guide to India from Flora Annie Steel. Third impression, 1916. Originally published 1905. Illustrated throughout with seventy-five colour plates and one folding map to the rear. Collated complete. An in-depth study of India with information on: history, Rajputs, Moghuls, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Parseeism, Animism, Bazaars, crafts, temples, women, ascetics, and morals of India. Written by Flora Annie Steel, a writer who lived in British India for 22 years. She was noted especially for books set in the Indian sub-continent or connected with it. Illustrated by Mortimer Menpes, an Australian-born British painter, author, printmaker and illustrator. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine and edges. Tide marks to the rear board. Rear hinge slightly strained but firm. Internally, firmly… Read More

London: A & C Black. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. DJ darkened and with light chipping. Slight loss to spine ends. Very light foxing to fore edge, bottom edge and first few pages. Else a handsome and tight copy. ; This is the more popular version of the rare India guide from the 20 Shilling series. Blue cloth with beautiful blindstamped decoration. Gilt spine lettering and black lettering to front board. 32 illustrations from watercolors by Mortimer Menpes. ; Black Popular Series of Colour Books; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 220 pages .

London: A & C Black. 1923. New Edition; revised. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. Illustrations by Mortimer Menpes. .

London: A & C Black. Very Good. 1912. Second Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Slight bumping to one corner. First and last few pages browned. Light foxing to half-title page and very light occasional foxing, but not affecting the illustrations. ; Dark red cloth boards with gilt lettering and ornate design in gilt, green and orange. Top edge gilt. 75 tissue guarded illustrations from watercolors by the famous artist Mortimer Menpes. 20 Shilling Series. Inman 38 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages .

London: A & C Black. Very Good+. 1912. Second Edition. Hardcover. Light dampstaining to bottom of back boards. Tanning and extremely light foxing to first and last few pages. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. An unusually handsome and tight copy; Dark red cloth boards with gilt lettering and ornate design in gilt, green and orange. Top edge gilt. 75 tissue guarded illustrations from watercolors by the famous artist Mortimer Menpes. Inman 38 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages .