India by Mortimer Menpes, Flora Annie Steel, Adam & Charles Black, 1905, Very Good

Steel, Flora Annie. London: Adam & Black, 1905. 

English, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 8 7/8" x 6 3/4", 216 pp. 

Hardcover in red cloth with stamped gilt illustrations of 2 birds to front panel, floral illustrations to front and spine, and gilt top-edge; large dried leaf laid-in opposite pg.96. Slight cocking to spine, pressure indentations to back panel, minor sunning to spine, light edgewear, notable foxing to edges and throughout text, ex-libris label and original engraving to front pastedown, and faint blue mark to fore-edge, otherwise, clean and tightly bound. 216 pp. Includes 75 color reproductions of Menpes' illustrations. Explores all that India has to offer, through 19 chapters by English writer, Flora Annie Steel. Discusses a variety of subjects including Hinduism, Buddhism, other religions in the country, temples and architecture, Ascetics, art, and more,  accompanied by Australian-born painter, author, printmaker and illustrator, Mortimer Menpes' stunningly colored illustrations of everyday life in India. Wonderfully produced book that provide great examples of Menpes' illustration style, which is compositionally similar to candid photography.