India / painted by Mortimer Menpes ; described by Flora Annie Steel.
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085642
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, [2], 220 p., 32 leaves of plates : col. ill., map ; 8vo. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "7/6net". Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; blind stamped panel design with shields on upper board and spine; black stamped title on upper board; blind stamped publisher's device on lower board; gilt stamped title on spine.
Makers and roles
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), original artist Flora Annie Webster Steel (1847-1929) , author