By Max O'Rell [Leon Paul Blouet]
Bristol   J. W. Arrowsmith
8" by 5.5" iv [1], 2-336pp
A delightfully illustrated first edition, recounting a Frenchman's cultural observations of late nineteenth century America.
By Max O'Rell [Leon Paul Blouet]

1891 A Frenchman in America (The Anglo-Saxon Race Revisited)

Bristol   J. W. Arrowsmith
8" by 5.5" iv [1], 2-336pp
A delightfully illustrated first edition, recounting a Frenchman's cultural observations of late nineteenth century America.
£72.00
: 0.75kgs / : 787F45

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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first UK edition of this work from Max O'Rell, the pseudonym of Leon Paul Blouet, a French author and journalist best known for his works providing observations and comparisons of Anglo-American and French culture.

This text details the incredibly successful author's lecturing tour around the United States, during which he was considered the bestselling foreign lecturer of his time.

Illustrated throughout by Edward Windsor Kemble, usually cited as E. W. Kemble, an American illustrator best known for his work on the first edition of Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. 

This copy features a publisher's advertisement to the front pastedown, as well as three further pages of advertisements to the rear of the text.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Slight discolouration to boards, with a more significant mark to rear board. Bumping to spine head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.

Very Good

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