Handsome first edition and printing of this wonderfully illustrated book, with coloured plates and folding map A comprehensive review and great reference with magnificent colour paintings covering the people, countryside and architecture and landscape of Belgium. The books gives a wonderful insight into Belgium around 1900. The book is beautifully bound, designed and illustrated with tissue-guarded and captioned frontispiece in colour, "Brussels, The Hotel de Ville", and 77 lovely internal illustration, which are tissue-guarded and captioned, and from plates by watercolours painted by Amedee Forestier. Fold-out map of Belgium and part of Holland in back of volume. Text by George W. T. Omond. Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1908. Publisher’s original Black cloth with Titles and heraldic emblem in yellow to front panel and gilt with yellow to spine. Book Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 5 cm and Number of Pages: 390 including index + 8 pages of publishers’ books Condition: Firm and well bound copy. External covers in nice shape, slightly marked and with light wear to corners, and to head and foot of spine. Internally the book is in very good condition. Pages are clean with light foxing on the margin of some pages and page edges. All pages are tightly held at the gutter. Inner hinges are very good. The text is fresh. The attractive illustrations make this a truly beautiful title (Please see pictures).