PHOTO-BOOK. – Owen SIMMONS. The Book of Bread. London: Maclaren & Sons, [1903.] Limited edition, this being one of 350 deluxe copies, 4to (280 x 216mm.) 10 tipped-in silver bromide prints on black card, 12 chromolithographed plates, photographic illustrations in the text, advertisements and ‘List of Subscribers’ to rear. (Toning, several bromide prints with small corner creases, slight marginal spotting to black card and a few colour plates.) Original red morocco, gilt lettering to upper cover, g.e. (staining to lower cover and spine). Note: Simmons was a lecturer at the National Bakery School in London and he commissioned the full-size photographs that appear in this work. As he wrote: ‘However critical readers may be they will be forced to admit that never before have they seen such a complete collection of prize loaves illustrated in such an excellent manner’.