First edition: 254 pages, colour frontispiece portrait of Lord Roberts, 98 plates - 90 in colour and 8 tinted, facsimile letters, all illustrations with captions on the tissue guards, all edges uncut, rebound in half leather with cream cloth boards, titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy.
Limitation reads: This edition de luxe is limited to three hundred and fifty copies of which this is no 86.
Mortimer Luddington Menpes (22 February 1855 – 1 April 1938), was an Australian-born British painter, author, printmaker and illustrator. In 1900, after the outbreak of the Boer War, Menpes was sent to South Africa as a war artist for the weekly illustrated magazine Black and White.
He was also a pioneer, with Carl Hentschel (1864–1926), in the development of techniques to reproduce coloured art works in book form. His book, 'War Impressions', published in April 1901 by A. & C. Black, was the first book to faithfully reproduce art works in color, based on watercolors done by Menpes in South Africa, and therefore was the forerunner of all illustrated art books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Menpes
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 4to (280 x210mm)
