[Inlaid Binding] Kelly, R. Talbot. Egypt: Painted & Described. E-List 17 Bookplate of industrialist James W

Bookplate of industrialist James W

other edges untrimmed

beautifully hand illuminated title page and initials

Also influenced by this work was Janet Payne Bowles [Arts and Crafts metal and jewelry worker]

Caxton Club

[Inlaid Binding] Kelly, R. Talbot. Egypt: Painted & Described. E-List 17 Bookplate of industrialist James WKelly, R. Talbot. Egypt Painted & Described. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1902. First edition. 4to. Top edge gilt; pp. xiii, 239. 75 colored plates, captioned tissue guard to each. An A & C Black classic; the Irish Egyptologist's and painter's book, based on his life with Bedouin tribes. Inman 19. Bound for Brentano's of Paris (almost assuredly by Birdsall of Northampton) in three quarter dark blue morocco over light blue cloth boards ruled in gilt.