The Work of Atget

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First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographs by Eugene Atget. Essay and notes to the plates by Maria Morris Hambourg. Appendixes include Berenice Abbott's typewritten copy of André Calmette's handwritten letter to her (late 1928). Maroon cloth with debossed title blind-stamped on cover and in gilt on spine, with dust jacket. 192 pp. with 116 plates and 84 black and white reference illustrations. Printed by The Meriden Gravure Company from halftone negatives made by Richard Benson. 12 x 10 1/2 inches.