MONCRIEFF, A. R. Hope (text). Sutton PALMER (illust.). Surrey. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1912
8vo., original blue green cloth blocked in gilt and printed in light green and purple, top edge gilt; 75 colour-plate illustrations, captioned on the tissue guard, pull-out map and [4] pages publisher's advertisements; a very good copy.
First edition. 3000 copies. ‘A & C Black’s Twenty Shilling series of colour plate books, published from 1901 onwards, brought the world into the home at a time when travel, especially overseas, was much more difficult than it is today. For the first time books containing large numbers of colour plates – up to 100 per volume – were made available to the public at an affordable price.’ (Inman)
Inman 77.
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