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![]() The Spirit of Paris [together with salesman's sample for the book]. 1913 - London, Adam and Charles Black, 1913. 8vo. Original brown cloth with a pictorial design by G. Riom blocked in gilt and printed in pink, green and black on the spine and upper board, top edge gilt; pp. xii, 169, [2, advertisements], 20 colour-plate illustrations by various Parisian artists: G. Fraipont, Raphael Kirchner, G. Riom, Lucien Gautier, Maurice de Lambert & A. Marcel-Clement; [salesman's sample]: pp. xii, 9-40, [4], 6 colour plates with tissue guards; main work with contemporary Danish bookplate; sample volume a little spotted internally. First edition. 3000 copies. Includes the amusing An Imaginary Conversation Serving as a Preface where Sommerville scripts a conversation between publisher and author justifying the need for a book capturing 'The Spirit of Paris'. The existance of sample volumes of A&C Black titles were hitherto unknown, and are not mentioned by the bibliographer Inman. âA & C Blackâs Twenty Shilling series of colour plate books, published from 1901 onwards, brought the world into the home at a time when travel, especially overseas, was much more difficult than it is today. For the first time books containing large numbers of colour plates â" up to 100 per volume â" were made available to the public at an affordable price.â (Inman) Inman 175. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Henry Sotheran Ltd] ![]()
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