OLYMPIC GAMES 1896: The Photograph Album of Albert Mayer by (Mayer, Albert). Tselika, Valentini - 1996.

[Athens, Greece?]: Exandas Publishers, 1996.. 1996.. Fine. - Quarto, 11-1/4 inches high by 11-1/8 inches wide. Hand-made binding in burgundy cloth titled in gilt on the spine and in gilt & white on the front cover. 80 & [1] pages plus the colophon, with color and black & white textual illustrations and 25 full-page plates of Albert Mayer's photographs of the first modern Olympic Games with descriptive text on the facing pages. Fine. <p>First edition in English. Scarce.<p>A superb work illustrating Albert Mayer's photographs of the 1896 Olympic Games preserved in the historical archives of the Benaki Museum in Athens.<p>The hand-made binding is by Vasilis Kypraios and the cover was designed by Natassa Pantou and Ioulia Karavasiloglou. The text is by Valentini Tselika and the book was edited by Manuela Berki.