A Little Journey in Provence
1911. Hardcover. "Printed not published May, 1911." -- title page. [2] p., 9 leaves of text, [8] leaves of tipped-in plates; 22 cm. Blue moire with gilt-stamped cover title; blind-ruled decoration on both boards. All page edges gilt. Blue embossed endpapers. Plates mounted on versos of printed leaves. The illustrations are reproduced from Old Provence by T.A. Cook, with permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. "Copyright 1911 by Walter H. Bonsall" -- at head of first page of text. This was probably the Walter H. Bonsall who was a printer in Germantown (Philadelphia), suggesting that this was printed in Philadelphia. Edmund Bayly Seymour, Sr., was a Philadelphia real estate lawyer and secretary of the Princeton Endowment Fund, who committed suicide in 1906 because of ill health. The author, Edmund Bayly Seymour, Jr., may have followed his father into real estate; this small publication presents an account of his visit to Provence in 1909, travelling with a friend by train and auto from Grenoble to Orange, Avignon, St. Remy de Provence, Les Baux, Arles, Aigues-Mortes, and Grau-du-Roi. Only a few copies were printed for friends. In Good+ Condition: corners are rubbed; upper edge of front board stained; tips of upper corners of leaves and 2 cm. of fore-edges from lower corners faintly stained; otherwise clean and tight. A very scarce early 20th-century account of travel in France. Good +. Item #002471
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