A&C Black 20 Shilling Color Edwardian Binding 1903 The Durbar Mortimer Menpes

Description: Hardcover. Large 8vo. Adam and Charles Black, London, UK. 1929. x, 220 pgs. With 32 full-page, annotated & tissue-guarded colour plates and 1 map. Revised edition. Bound in Edwardian cloth boards lavishly decorated blind with gilt titles present to the spine and in blind to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Text is clean and free of marks. A. & C. Black published ninety-two 20/- (20 shillings) series of Colour Books between 1901 and 1921. The Edwardian period was, perhaps, the peak time for book illustrations as, although photography was well established, the black and white images could not match the brilliance of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac and their contemporaries for colour illustrations. The A. & C. Black's 20/- series used water-colour artists and was the first to use the new "three colour" process for colour plates. The books were lavish in their use of colour illustrations with most volumes having 70 or more colour plates. A&C Black 20 Shilling Color Edwardian Binding 1903 The Durbar Mortimer Menpes Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is India by Flora Annie Steel With Illustrations by Mortimer Menpes Hardcover. Large 8vo. Adam and Charles Black, London, UK. 1929. x, 220 pgs. With 32 full-page, annotated & tissue-guarded colour plates and 1 map. Revised edition. Bound in Edwardian cloth boards lavishly decorated blind with gilt titles present to the spine and in blind to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Text is clean and free of marks. FROM ONLINE: A. & C. Black published ninety-two 20/- (20 shillings) series of Colour Books between 1901 and 1921. The Edwardian period was, perhaps, the peak time for book illustrations as, although photography was well established, the black and white images could not match the brilliance of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac and their contemporaries for colour illustrations. The A. & C. Black's 20/- series used water-colour artists and was the first to use the new "three colour" process for colour plates. The books were lavish in their use of colour illustrations with most volumes having 70 or more colour plates. In the 20/- series the three elements of a book - the text; the illustrations and the cover - come together beautifully. The text was not closely associated with the illustrations, authors were not expected to describe the illustrations and were specifically required to produce "bright readable descriptions not overloaded with statistics". In the same way the publishers required of their artists "bright colouring". For many of the books the authors and artists seem to have not even been in contact! The cover designs also mark out the 20/- series as special and were mostly the work of A.A. Turbayne and his colleagues at Carlton Studio. Many of the covers show the scarab motif of Turbayne (for example Kent ) or the CS monogram of Carlton studios. OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. We understand that you have more choices than ever to buy books, so we strive to provide the best service, accurate descriptions, the cheapest shipping and the best customer service in the realm of bookselling. Thank you for visiting this listing and we hope to see you again soon! Book formats and corresponding sizes Name Abbreviations Leaves Pages Approximate cover size (width × height) inches cm folio 2º or fo 2 4 12 × 19 30.5 × 48 quarto 4º or 4to 4 8 9½ × 12 24 × 30.5 octavo 8º or 8vo 8 16 6 × 9 15 × 23 duodecimo or twelvemo 12º or 12mo 12 24 5 × 7⅜ 12.5 × 19 sextodecimo or sixteenmo 16º or 16mo 16 32 4 × 6¾ 10 × 17 octodecimo or eighteenmo 18º or 18mo 18 36 4 × 6½ 10 × 16.5 trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo 32º or 32mo 32 64 3½ × 5½ 9 × 14 quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo 48º or 48mo 48 96 2½ × 4 6.5 × 10 sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo 64º or 64mo 64 128 2 × 3 5 × 7.5 ALL ITEMS ARE DESCRIBED TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY! PLEASE CHECK ALL THE PHOTOS BEFORE BIDDING! PAYMENT IS DUE WITHIN FOUR (4) DAYS OF THE INVOICE! Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding/buying. These charges are typically collected by the delivering freight (shipping) company or when you pick the item up. We do not mark merchandise values below value or mark items as "gifts" as US and International government regulations prohibit such behavior. (This is a felony in the United States) Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing.300+ Listing Templates! Auctiva gets you noticed! Attention Sellers - Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva.com. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

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