KOLLAR, FRANÇOIS (1904-1979) 15 volumes. La France travaille. Éditions Horizons de France, Paris, 1932-1934. In-4 (32.5 x 24.5 cm). Original editions. Photographs by François Kollar, superbly printed in heliogravure. Texts by Pierre Hamp, Jean Prévost, Emile Condroyer, Charles Le Goffic, Hervé Lauwick,Lucien Fabre, Charles Silvestre, M. Constantin-Weyer, André Warnod, J. Chevalier, Gabriel Faure, Léon Riotor, Jean Ajalbert, Pierre Gerber, G. Chevallier-Chevignard, Léandre Vaillat, Henri Pourrat, Georges Lecomte, André Thérive, Henry Joly and Jean Rostand. Complete series of 15 volumes: 1: miners; 2: iron trades; 3: bargemen and boatmen, seafarers; 4: lighthouse life; 5: railways; 6: the automobile, the airplane; 7: sources of energy; 8: peasant life, winegrowers; 9: markets and city supplies, foresters and lumberjacks, flowers and perfumes; 10: weavers and spinners, canuts, tapestries; 11: sewing and fashion; 12: glassmakers and ceramists; 13: the building trade; 14: paper mills, book trades; 15: newspapers, libraries, laboratories. Publisher's binding with photographic illustration on cover. Corners slightly dulled; 1st plate with minor traces of rubbing; slight traces of foxing on the endpapers of some copies. Nevertheless, a fine set of this 15-volume series, rarely complete.