Bread.- Photobook.- Simmons (Owen) The Book of Bread, first edition, one of 350 deluxe copies (with list of subscribers at end), 10 tipped-in silver bromide prints, 12 chromolithographed plates, advertisements at end, silver bromide prints with silvering and a few creased at lower inner corner, some spotting or foxing, mostly marginal, occasional staining, original black crushed morocco, gilt, rebacked in in black modern morocco, gilt spine in compartments and with a red leather label, corners worn, rubbed, [Bitting p. 435; Parr & Badger The Photobook, I, 56], 4to, Maclaren & Sons, [1903].

⁂ 'one of the humblest, yet most essential of objects is catalogued as precisely, rigorously and objectively as any work by a 1980s Conceptual artist' (Martin Parr in The Photobook).