The Book of Bridges : E Arcambeau : Jessie M King : Gowans & Gray : Ltd Ed 1911

THE BOOK OF BRIDGES

By Edme Arcambeau

Illustrated by Jessie M. King

London: Gowans & Gray, 1911. First edition, printing limited to 1000 copies. 4to., 149 pp.; olive green cloth with printed pictorial cover label, beveled edges to boards, gilt lettered and decorated spine. Colour frontispiece plus 17 colour plates by Jessie M King, each with captioned guards (except for the frontis as called for.

King went to live in Paris in 1911 when her husband E A Taylor took up the post of art teacher in a private art school there run by a friend. Gowans and Gray had commissioned her before she left England to do 18 watercolours of the bridges of Paris. This book was the result.

CONDITION
A good first edition. The cloth binding is in good condition with a few light grubby marks. Hinges are secure with no cracking and the binding remains firm and tight. Endpapers browned with age. A little light spotting to half-title page and again some faint spotting to a few pages but overall pages are in good clean condition throughout. All 18 colour plates are present and in good condition with no damage. Overall a good+ copy of this scarce title.

(Platform : Art)