The Sunshade, Muff, and Glove.
By OCTAVE UZANNE.
Illustrations by PAUL AVRIL.
Royal 8vo, cloth, gilt top, 31s. 6d.
Note.—This is an English Edition of the unique and artistic work “L’Ombrelle,” recently published in Paris, and now difficult to be procured. No new Edition in French to be produced.
This Edition has been printed at the press of Monsieur Quantin with the same care and wonderful taste as was his French Edition.
Glasgow Herald.
“‘I have but collected a heap of foreign flowers, and brought of my own only the string which binds them together’ is the fitting quotation with which M. Uzanne closes the preface to his volume on Woman’s Ornaments. The monograph on the Sunshade, called by the author ‘a little tumbled fantasy,’ occupies fully one-half of the volume. It begins with a pleasant invented mythology of the parasol; glances at the sunshade in all countries and times; mentions many famous umbrellas; quotes a number of clever sayings.... To these remarks on the spirit of the book it is necessary to add that the body of it is a dainty marvel of paper, type, and binding; and that what meaning it has looks out on the reader through a hundred argus-eves of many-tinted photogravures, exquisitely designed by M. Paul Avril.”
Athenæum.
“The letterpress comprises much amusing ‘chit-chat,’ and is more solid than it pretends to be. The illustrations contain a good deal that is acceptable on account of their spirit and variety.... This brochure is worth reading, nay, we think it is worth keeping.”