Smith, Charles Sprague — Barbizon Days: Millet-Corot-Rousseau-Barye
New York, A. Wessels Company, 1902. Hardcover. Brown cloth. gilt artwork and lettering. 232 pp. 73 bw plates. This book is a chronicle of a summer spent in the little hamlet of Barbizon, on the borders of the Forest of Fontainebleau, among the artists Millet, Corot, Rousseau, and Barye. All of the 73 charming plates are faced with tissue-guards. Date is from copyright page. Title-page says 1903, inked inscription on ffep is December 1902. VG, spine and corners bumped. Gilt top edge, pages untrimmed.