Inauguration du Nouvel Hotel de la Societe; le 14 Janvier 1897.

Octavo: 27 pages. A rather nice production, with nine double-page plates, frontispiece and double-page table. Unbound. In original grey printed wraps, with gold foil seal of the society laid down as part of cover design. Good, in lightly aged wraps. Some tissue guards. Two essays: 'La Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France de 1848 a 1896' by M. A. Mallet, and 'Le Nouvel Hotel de la Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France' by M. F. Delmas ('Architecte de la Societe'). Delmas's comments on his design are revealing: 'Pour la facade, je ne me suis pas preoccupe, a proprement parler, de lui donner un style determine: j'ai pense qu'un hotel d'ingenieurs devait, avant tout, etre reconnaissable par son caractere utilitaire; aussi, ai-je cherche a accuser, a l'exterieur, les services interieurs.' Nevertheless, from the plates, the building seems to have something of an Art Nouveau quality. No copy on COPAC.