New Zealand; Painted by F. and W. Wright, Described by Hon. William Pember Reeves, 1908

A beautifully illustrated book on New Zealand, containing 75 guarded colour illustrations, plus map at the rear.

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New Zealand; Painted by F. and W. Wright, Described by Hon. William Pember Reeves, High Commissioner for New Zealand.

Published by Adam and Charles Black, London 1908. First edition.

A good hardback with printed pictorial cloth over boards. Covers are quite heavily worn and titles have faded. some bumping and wear to extremities and some crinkling to front cover cloth. A little give in the spine, so some weakness in the binding, but all still bound and plates all present as called for. Previous owner's inscription to first free blank endpaper, with some offsetting below.

Text is generally bright and clean throughout with some offsetting opposite printed colour plates. The plates themselves are bright, crisp and clean. Small bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown. Contains a 2pp promotional leaflet for the Publisher. An imperfect book, but with very attractive content.

ix + 241pp + 75 tissue guarded plates with printed title facing plate + fold-out map.

Weight approximately 1.2kg (unpacked).

Dimensions: Approximately 227mm high x 170mm wide x 47mm deep.