A Picture Geography, Part One [All published]: Asia.

Bryher [i.e., Winifred Ellerman]

A Picture Geography, Part One [All published]: Asia.

With Illustrations by M.D. Cole.

Description: FIRST EDITION, map printed in black and red and 19 illustrations by Cole with colour-printing in yellow and red, pp. 47, oblong 4to, original quarter blue cloth, green boards printed in black to upper board, light wear to edges, very good

Publication Details: Jonathan Cape, 1925

Notes: An unusual and rather charming book; the printed dedication is to Perdita, the daughter of H.D. and Cecil Gray (and subsequently Bryher's adopted daughter following her marriage to Kenneth Macpherson). The author's descriptions of the various countries in this 'big continent', focusing largely on their fauna but also sometimes describing their landscape or characteristics of the population, seem to be addressed to the six year old also.

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