Title: The Spirit of Paris Author: Frankfort Sommerville

Title: The Spirit of Paris 
Author: Frankfort Sommerville
Publisher: A & C Black
Published Date: 1913.
First edition. 8vo.
Illustrated: Twenty colour illustrations by Gustave Fraipont, Lucien Gautier, Raphael Kirchner and others. 
 
This beautiful book is bound in brown pictorial cloth with an art nouveau pictorial design to the front cover and gilt titles to the front cover and spine. The boards are in very good condition with some light surface wear and light rubbing/bumping to the edges, corners and to the head and tail of the spine. Contents clean and bright throughout with only the odd minor spot of foxing. With 20 full colour plates, illustrating various aspects of Paris life, people and architecture.