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Croquis d’outre-manche

1900120 x 180 mm

FIRST EDITION.
Autograph letter signed to Aristide Bruant.

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FIRST EDITION.
Mention of second mile.

Autograph signed letter to Aristide Bruant:

"To my dear friend
Aristide Bruant
and to Madame Bruant
these sketches of an old
cobbler
Hector France "

The book dedicated to Octave Uzanne, "dwhose masterly pen has so magnificently described curious corners of English life",  contains twenty sketches from across the Channel: Snob and cads, Societies of virtue, Drunkards and water-drinkers, The Derby, Swimming clubs, For Ireland The French in London...

 

Paris,Fasquelle,1900.In-12, Bound,120 x 180 mm,[7] 292 [4] pp.

Bound in the Bradel style of the period. Half red percaline, smooth spine, decorated with fillets, fleuron, gilt title, bookmark, cover preserved. Spine uniformly faded, corners rubbed.

Bio

Aristide Bruant

(Courtenay: 6 May 1851 to - Paris: 11 February 1925)

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Hector France

(Mirecourt: 5 July 1837 - Rueil-Malmaison: 19 August 1908)

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