Arras Avant et Apres le Bombardment [Arras Before and After the Bombardment].

GREAT WAR

Published by Fernand Benoit [no date].

About this Item

First edition. Landscape 8vo. A series of thirty-five captioned tissue-protected photographs depicting Arras before and after the Great War (which saw roughly three-quarters of it destroyed). Stiff card leaves bound in paper wrappers, rubbed and chafed at extremities. A brief history of the city, in French and English, is printed to the front and rear endpapers ("Whole parts of the City have been whipped out: devastation is to be seen everywhere. Arras is not to be recognised. The town, however, has kept is [sic] outlines of past times. She shall rise again, out of the ruins, more beautiful than ever, for she was the inviolated Capital of the province of Artois, and must not desappear [sic]"). Uncommon. Seller Inventory # BC13670

Bibliographic Details

Title: Arras Avant et Apres le Bombardment [Arras ...

Publisher: Fernand Benoit [no date].

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition