Bugatti Magnum (Limited First Edition)

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First edition

CONWAY, Hugh (with Maurice Sauzay). Bugatti Magnum. Sparkford: G. T. Foulis (Haynes Publishing Group), 1989. Large 4to (34 x 25.3cm). Original blue publisher's cloth. Illustrated vignette of the Bugatti logo to cover. Spine lettered in silver. 559, [i] pp. Approximately 800 monochrome and 73 colour illustrations throughout, including photographs, technical drawings, and design sketches, many published for the first time. Housed in original decorative slipcase with engine-turned aluminium-effect finish and engraved brass "chassis plate." First edition, limited to 2,000 numbered copies (English text issue), this being number 209. Bugatti Magnum was, by wide consensus among motoring bibliophiles, the automotive book event of 1989. It is the most comprehensive single volume ever produced on the marque, and one that sold out with unusual speed for a book of its size, price, and specialist subject matter. It remains, more than three decades on, widely regarded by Bugatti enthusiasts as the definitive reference work on the marque's complete production history. Hugh G. Conway (1917–1989) had already established himself, across several earlier books including Bugatti: Le Pur-Sang des Automobiles , as the pre-eminent English-language authority on Ettore Bugatti and his cars; a scholarly reputation built over decades of research into chassis histories, technical specifications, and the extraordinary breadth of Bugatti's design activity beyond the automobile. Bugatti Magnum was conceived

• Binding: Hardcover

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