Dorothy Menpes — World&Apos;S Children

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this volume comprising beautiful illustrations of children across the world. First edition. Illustrated with one hundred colour plates. Collated complete. This book contains the author's impressions of children from different countries as they travelled around the world, discussing the attitudes towards them and their role in society. Illustrated by Mortimer Luddington Menpes, an Australian-born British painter, author, printmaker and illustrator. With text from his daughter, Dorothy Menpes. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and a small split in the cloth to the rear joint. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Light scattered spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Mortimer Menpes. Very Good .