Mortimer Menpes; Dorothy Menpes — World&Apos;S Children

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1903 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this highly illustrated travel volume on children around the world from successful father-daughter pair Mortimer and Dorothy Menpes. First edition.   Signed by Mortimer Menpes to the half-title page.   In the publisher's original aquamarine cloth binding.   Illustrated with one hundred colour plates, including the frontispiece. Collated, complete.   Ten pages of illustrated publisher's advertisments to the rear of the work.   An unconventional travel volume, discussing the authors' impressions of children from around the world, thus comparing and contrasting cultural norms and contemporary British attitudes towards them. Illustrated by Mortimer Menpes, a popular Australian-born British painter, author, printmaker and illustrator. With text from his daughter, Dorothy Menpes. In the publisher's original aquamarine cloth binding. Signed by Mortimer Menpes to the half-title page. Externally, reasonably smart with light loss of cloth, tearing and fraying to the spine head, tail and tips, extending more significantly along the rear joint and leaving the rear board a little fragile. Boards a little marked and faded. Internally, hinges weak, resulting in the front free endpaper being especially delicate, as is the binding to the plate facing page 82 and also to page 209. Generally bright and clean with light, scattered spotting, heaviest to the first and last few pages. Good . Ill.: Mortimer Menpes. Good .