Paris: L’Accueil de Paris, n.d. (mid-century). One of a series of beautifully illustrated leaflets on the beauties of Paris edited by L’Accueil de Paris under the authority of the Conseil Municipal de Paris. This one focuses upon the basins and ponds or lakes of Paris gardens, the text’s author noting that these lakes (or oceans) are created by the hand of man for humanity’s pleasure and the games of children. Two reproductions of watercolours by Catalan-born artist, Emilio Grau Sala, illustrate children gathered around their miniature sailboats in the basin of the Luxembourg gardens and romantic figures posed around the lake at the Parc de Buttes-Chaumont. We have not located a copy of this leaflet online, but we did find another similar item illustrated by Grau-Sala and offered by L’Accueil de Paris on the topic of “Fenêtres de Paris.” at the Musée de Carnavet. It would seem that the one loose coloured illustration was offered for the buyer to frame or use for decoration. Consequently, most of the leaflets composed in this way are very scarce. Oblong leaflet, 6 ff, with 2 ff text and including illustrated covers, one of which is coloured and measures 22.2 x 27 cm and one smaller illustration in black and white on lowr cover; + 1 coloured plate, loose, as issued, measuring 22.7 x 27 cm.