Venice
by Dorothy Menpes
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First edition. Hardback. Good. 11" by 8.5". Mortimer Menpes. A signed edition de luxe of this beautiful work exploring Venice, colourfully illustrated with one-hundred plates. A limited edition de luxe, numbered four-hundred and thirty-nine of a total of five hundred copies.Signed by Mortimer Menpes to the limitation.A beautiful monograph of Venice, exploring the history, architecture, and society of the Italian city.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and ninety-nine colour plates.Collated, complete.Illustrated by Mortimer Menpes, with text by his daughter, Dorothy Menpes In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, a little discoloured and marked, as is usual with a white binding. Spine is discoloured. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, a small amount of loss to the head of the spine. Small crack to the tail of the rear joint. Hinges are starting a little but remain firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 886P5
- Title
- Venice
- Author
- Dorothy Menpes
- Illustrator
- Mortimer Menpes
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1904
- Size
- 11" by 8.5"
- Keywords
- Venice europe topography mortimer menpes europe
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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