The Spell of France, Illustrated

Boston: The Page Company, Publishers, 1921. [TRAVEL] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Fold-out map: Map of Southern France
Fifth printing, first published in 1912. 8vo; x, 425pp; pictorial green cloth over board, gilt stamped lettering and illustration highlights, color scene of a castle on the front, gilt stamped spine with vignette; top edge gilt, untrimmed fore edge; pictorial eps; color pictorial fp with tissue guard; color map inserted before pg vii; 48 b&w photographic plates illustrated by half-tone; light rubbing to edges, paper lightly age toned; very good plus. A wonderful book on France with 49 photographic illustrations of people, scenes, and art; one in color. The author, Caroline Atwater Mason (1853-1939), was an American novelist and travel writer. She was educated at the Friend's Boarding School in Providence (Rhode Island), studied in Germany, and did research in both England and the Netherlands. She was married to an American Baptist clergyman who taught at the seminary in Rochester, and notably, she belonged to the National Association Opposed to Women's Suffrage. (WIKIPEDIA).

A bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown is from Brentano's in Paris.