Charles Spire Blondel/ Illustrations Gustave Fraipont - Livre des Fumeurs et Priseurs (1/30 ex. tirage de luxe) - 1891

Splendid work on tobacco and smokers at the end of the 19th century.

Original edition, adorned with 113 illustrations by Gustave Fraipont, of which 16 full-page plates are hand-coloured in the period.
One of 30 copies printed on Japan paper for A. Ferroud (No. XV). The sole deluxe edition.

A reference work on the history, culture and preparation of tobacco in all its forms: smoking tobacco, the pipe, the cigar and the cigarette and snuff tobacco and the tobacco box. The last chapter is devoted to 'for or against', on the disadvantages and advantages of tobacco.

Rare with Fraipont’s coloured illustrated covers preserved (without the spine).

This handsome in-quarto publication is preserved bound, spine restoration.

Pages loose but text clean and without defects.

Charles Spire Blondel is known as an art writer. He contributed notably to La revue des Beaux-arts from 1860, and from 1878 to the Encyclopedic and Biographical Dictionary of Industry and the Arts.
He is also the author of several works at the crossroads between the arts, technique and savoir-vivre.

Gustave de Fraipont is a Franco-Belgian painter, sculptor, illustrator and poster designer.

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