Brown cloth binding with orange and yellow title and design on the spine and front board.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. English With 77 illustrations, most in colour : Market at Bruges – Ypres – Furnes – Nieuport – La Panne- Coxyde – Ghent – Brussels – Antwerp – Liège – Namur – etc. (Several pictures each). Original stamped binding. 390 Pages. Beautiful copy!

George William Thomson Omond MA FRHistS (1846–1929) was a Scottish advocate and a prolific writer of history books. He was born at Craigentor, near Crieff, Perthshire on 13 September 1846. His father was the Rev. John Reid Omond (1804-1892) from Orkney, minister of the Free Church of Scotland at the parish of Monzie, Perthshire, and his mother Margaret Jane Thomson. George was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh where he graduated in 1868 with first class honours in classics and second class in philosophy. He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was created Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Couronne (Belgium) for his books on that country. In Edinburgh he lived at 32 Royal Circus in the New Town. He died on 18 June 1929.

Charles Amédée Forestier (1854 – 18 November 1930) was an Anglo-French artist and illustrator who specialised in historical and prehistoric scenes, and landscapes.