"7. Paris, Floury, 1896, in-8°, 19,5 x 14 cm, 200 pp, index, sewn, orig. decorated wrappers (slightly worn). With handwritten dedication by the author to Victor Champier, editor of Revue des Arts Décoratifs. In Sept. 1895 the author asked in Journal des Artistes if one could speak of an ""Art Nouveau"" in France.This book gives the answers of the many interviewees; Grasset, Charpentier, Bracquemond, Roty, Serrurier, Dampt, Duez, H.Cros, Carabin, Toulouse Lautrec, Raffaëlli, Baffier, Régamy, Zilcken, Rivière, Auriol, Gauguin, Montesquiou, Jourdain,Hankar, Falize, Niderkorn, Honoré, Buls, F.de Breux, and the views of de Goncourt, Uzanne, Champier, Havard, Alexandre, R.Marx, W.Morris, W.Crane, Essex. In the second part of the book the author gives his own ideas on the new art. Highly interesting account on the beginning of the Art Nouveau in France, rare. (Art Nouveau, Jugendstil)."