WAR IMPRESSIONS BEING A RECORD IN COLOUR (Boer War title - The first to be produced in colour)

Mempes (Mortimer)

Description:

xiv plus 254pp plus fold-out map. Original green cloth, with gilt lettering and silver design on the upper cover and spine. Top edge of text-block gilt. Ninety-nine full page illustrations, under captioned tissue guards, by Mortimer Menpes. Folding map and six facsimile letters at the rear.

Previous owners name penned to front free EP. EP's heavily browned, prelims foxed. Internally clean and bright. Corners slightly bumped and lightly frayed. Some light grubby marks to cover. Internal binding is fragile as no thread-sewing was used in the bindery process. The spinal glue has subsequently become brittle over the years and starting to crack. All pages however are present and accounted for. It would be an easy fix however to detach the entire text-block and re-apply a fresh coat of pliable glue to the spine.

Reminiscences of Australian artist Mortimer Menpes of the months he spent in South Africa during the Boer War. Inman 85a.

Inman calls this book "a landmark in a number of ways: it is generally accepted that it was the first to make use of the potential of the recently invented three-colour process, which enabled the printing of adequate quality colour illustrations at a reasonable cost,.[and] it set the pattern for the publication of hundreds of colour plate books by A. & C. Black over the next thirty years." [p. 7].

Mortimer Menpes made these sketches as a Special Correspondent for BLACK AND WHITE during the Boer War; his daughter, Dorothy transcribed his descriptions of the incidents depicted. A series of facsimile autograph letters is appended.

Details:

  • Publisher: Adam & Charles Black
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: 1901
  • Edition: 1st Edition
  • Binding Condition: Fragile
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 215mm x 158mm x 41mm
  • Lot No: 264
  • Hammer Price: $75
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  • Estimate: $150/200
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