BELGIAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY by Boulger, Demetrius C - 1904

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. Cloth. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A very scarce illustrated edition of this charmingly bound early twentieth century study of Belgium. A very scarce edition of English author Demetrius Charles De Kavanagh Boulger's guide to Belgium. Boulger discusses social customs, the history of the country, 'the court and society', 'law and justice' and 'the dead fields of Flanders', amongst many other topics.Illustrated with seventeen photographic plates. Collated, complete.With four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.Acquired from the sale of American novelist Paul Gallico's library. Gallico was a prolific writer, but is perhaps now best remembered for his 1969 novel 'The Poseidon Adventure', adapted into the successful 1972 motion picture. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Light discolouration to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine