Recollections of the Paris Exhibition of 1867. by (EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE,…

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~ Recollections of the Paris Exhibition of 1867. London: Chapman and Hall; Paris: Dentu ‘to be had also of the author’, [1868].

8vo (204 × 146 mm), pp. [4], 340, including wood engraved frontispiece plan, plus additional chromolithograph title, wood engraved illustrations. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt. Lightly rubbed, but a very good copy.

First edition. Rimmel, a phenomenally successful perfumer and cosmetics innovator was a member of the committee of the second Paris exposition. His Recollections contain a colour-printed additional title of the Broussa mosque, the medieval Yechil Djami (the Green Mosque), reconstructed in reduced form in the Turkish section of the Exposition. The book appeared in both French and English versions, which eachran to several editions.

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