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War impressions: being a record in colour
by MENPES, Mortimer
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Adam & Charles Black, [1901]. De luxe edition, limited to 350 copies signed by the author, of which this is number 348. xiv, 254pp, [2]. With 99 colour plates, six facsimile letters, and a folding map. Original publisher's cream cloth, tooled in gilt, bevelled edges, T.E.G., all others deckled. A trifle discoloured. Armorial bookplate of H. C. Embleton to FEP, very occasional spotting. The de luxe, limited, pre-trade edition, of painter Mortimer Menpes' (1855-1938) pictorial history of the Boer War, the text supplied by his daughter Dorothy. . First edition. Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ23309
- Title
- War impressions: being a record in colour
- Author
- MENPES, Mortimer
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adam & Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1901]
- Size
- Quarto
- Keywords
- Military History
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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