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The book is beautifully and colourfully illustrated with coloured frontispiece, and 74 captioned tissue-guarded fine colour plates. Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1910. Publisher’s original decorative cloth. Bound in blue cloth board with the design of a lotus flower on the front board and on spine. Spine lettered in gilt. Top page edges gilt.
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Book Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 4.5 cm & Number of Pages: 246 + 2 pages of Author’s books.
Condition
Firm, and well bound volume. Light wear to boards’ corners, and to head and foot of spine. Internally the book is in very good condition. No names or inscriptions. Spotting marks and foxing to free endpapers pages, and some other pages. The text and plates are clean and bright (Nice and Firm Copy) (Please see pictures).
Robert Talbot Kelly
Robert George Talbot Kelly (1861–1934) was an English orientalist landscape and genre painter, author and illustrator. Kelly was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, the son of Irish landscape artist Robert George Kelly. He left school in 1876 to take up work in a firm of cotton traders, but was also taught art by his father, exhibiting under the name R. G. Kelly Jnr.
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