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Toulouse-Lautrec

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This is not a review of the product, but of the description. I'm looking for some stickers for a certain project, and I'd like to know the size of these stickers. Postage stamps? Full book-sized? [I know this is one of those small Dover books.]
Please understand that dimensions are important!

I want to buy a book with photos of Lautrec's Moulin Rouge posters. I cannot tell from the review and lack of book info on site whether there are photos in the book. Will not buy.

Toulouse-Lautrec is my favorite artist. He has always fascinated me the most, both his life and his work. He had one or two accidents as a child where his legs were broken and they stopped growing. As a result, he became a dwarf. This must have created a deep-seated inferiority complex in him that caused him, consciously or unconsciously, to draw unflattering caricatures of his contemporaries. But the drawing style was completely original and his own. He soon became famous for his lithographs or posters depicting entertainers at the Moulin Rouge, etc. He was highly productive but always a heavy drinker and inexhaustible party animal. In fact, it was his frequenting of brothels and romantic friendships with prostitutes that eventually did him in. He caught syphilis, a deadly 19th century venereal disease for which there was no cure in those days. However, he left behind some of the most unique Impressionist paintings of Parisian night-life ever painted.

David Rehak
author of "Love and Madness"