Eiffel (Gustave) La Tour de Trois Cents Mètres, 2 vol., one of 500 copies (numbering not uniform), signed presentation copy from the author inscribed "A l'Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland de Glasgow. Hommage de G.Eiffel" on half-title of vol.1, etched portrait (spotted), titles in red & black with vignette, text with illustrations, 2 leaves of facsimile signatures and appendix at end, plate vol. with 53 double-page lithographed or chromolithographed plates numbered I-XLVII as called for (with 8 additional plates but XXVI & XXVII never printed), a few with folding leaf of explanatory text, 13 photogravure plates, 11 double-page, double-page colour map of environs of Paris, all mounted on stubs, text volume lacking pp.181-185, library stamp to titles but an excellent copy, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., rubbed, particularly joints, spine ends repaired, preserved in modern cloth slip-cases, folio, Paris, 1900.

⁂ Magnificent account of the construction of the famous Eiffel Tower, built in 1887-89 for the Universal Exposition in Paris of 1889, and one of the earliest monographs dedicated to a modern building. It was produced at Eiffel's expense for presentation to libraries, institutions etc.