[Rarebooks] fa: JAPAN: A RECORD IN COLOUR 1903 - Mortimer Mapes - RIVIERE MOROCCO BINDING

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy Menpes: Japan: A Record in Colour. London: Charles Black, 1903. Large 8vo (22.5 cm) in signed three-quarter crimson morocco binding by Riviere & Son, elaborately gilt-tooled spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top page edges gilt; xiv, 206 pp. + 100 color plates.

Small scuff to the front board, a touch of light toning and dust-soiling to the fore-edge of the text block, otherwise very clean and bright, firmly bound. A handsome copy of a handsomely produced book. Front paste-down with the gilt-tooled morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. William A. Foyle (1885-1963) was the co-founder, with his brother Gilbert, of Foyles in London, one of the largest and most famous bookstores in the world. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey, in Essex, in 1943.