Arras avant et apres le Bombardement
ARRAS.
REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED, BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Published: Fernard Benoit, n.d. [c.1918]
Stock code: 41266
Price: £30.00
Landscape 8vo., First Edition, text leaves in English and French, with 35 plates captioned in French and English on stiff card, some very light marking to one or two blank margins; limp red boards lettered in gilt and black, original ribbon replaced to style, radial corners, covers mildly age-soiled else a remarkably well-preserved bright, clean copy.
Valuable contemporary depiction of Arras before and after the Great War, in which around three-quarters of the city was destroyed. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.