Boyhood Photos of J.-H. Lartigue The Family Album of a Gilded Age

Lausanne: Edita S.A., 1966. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. burgundy cloth, decorated in floral art deco designs, front cover pictorial inset. Fine. Lartigue, Jacques Henri. 128 pages. Landscape 4to, 24 x 30 cm. Plethora of tipped-in reproductions of photographs by Lartigue who began picture taking at the age of seven, during the frivolous spirit of France's Belle Époque -- the Paris of an upper middle class family. Fresh, crisp copy.