Signé; Gustave-Adolphe Mossa - Les Anglais dans le comté de Nice et en Provence depuis le XVIIIe. [1/100 avec un dessin original] - 1934

Luxurious edition dedicated to the English in Nice and Provence since the 18th century, published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Musée Masséna. Limited to 410 copies, this one, one of the hundred copies on tinted 'Chatelio' paper, is decorated with an original watercolor by Gustave-Adolphe Mossa (no. 22).

Rich iconography in black and white.

Very fine copy, bound in a luxurious half-maroon red leather binding with corner pieces, double fillet along the covers and corners, richly decorated spine with small gold tools, title, date, and place stamped in gold at the foot. Gilt head. Covers and spine preserved.
In very good condition. Small tear on the leather of the first cover (lower edge), impeccable interior.

Gustave-Adolphe Mossa, also known by the Germanized name Gustav-Adolf Mossa, which he used until World War I, was a French symbolist painter and illustrator. He was born on January 28, 1883, in Nice, where he died on May 25, 1971.
In the field of painting, like his father Alexis, he created numerous landscape watercolors. He practiced expressionism, producing, between 1903 and 1904, one hundred and eighty-nine ink and colored pencil drawings, caricaturing both socialites and religious figures at times, showing interest in small trades or current events, signed Mossa or Karl Joël (exceptionally Karl Joris) in homage to Huysmans.

Signed; Gustave-Adolphe Mossa
The English in the County of Nice and Provence since the 18th century - English art at the Musée Masséna
Editions of the Friends of the Masséna Museum, Nice, 1934
in-4 (28x23cm); 237pp