[Fine Binding | Cedric Chivers] World's Children E-List 12 Philip Wright

Philip Wright

The Astronomer-Poet of Persia

with initials designed by Graily Hewitt

illustrations by Mortimer Menpes

William Edwin Rudge

[Fine Binding | Cedric Chivers] World's Children E-List 12 Philip WrightMenpes, Mortimer and Dorothy. World's Children. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1903. Text by Dorothy Menpes, illustrations by Mortimer Menpes. Limited to 500 copies, of which this is #11. Signed by the illustrator, with an original watercolor illustration of a Dutch girl bound in. Illustrated with 100 color reproductions of watercolor paintings. Bound in dark blue crushed morocco by Cedric Chivers, with the front cover featuring an art nouveau design