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NEW AND SPLENDIDLY EMBELLISHED WORK,
In one large Vol. 8vo.
THE BOOK OF GEMS.
(The Poets and Artists of Great Britain.)
WITH UPWARDS OF
FIFTY BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS
FROM
ORIGINAL PICTURES,
BY FIFTY LIVING PAINTERS.
This beautiful Work, which is a perfect novelty among the embellished
publications of the day, presents the combined attractions of Poetry, Painting,
and Engraving. It is splendidly illustrated with upwards of Fifty exquisitely
finished Engravings from Original Pictures by the most distinguished
living Painters, and altogether forms one of the most beautiful library,
drawing-room, and present books which the advanced state of the Arts has
hitherto produced.
“The Book of Gems seems too fair to be looked upon, combining all those
external decorations which made the Annuals so attractive, with something
far better than the vapid prose and milk-and-water poetry of which their
staple generally consisted. It is a book more lovely to the sense than the
most gorgeous of the tribe of Souvenirs and Forget me-nots; and, unlike them,
it will be as valuable twenty years hence as it is now. The very conception
of such a book deserves no little praise, and its execution the very highest.
For its combined attractions to the man of taste and the lover of art, this
work has no rival in the annals of book making.”
—American Monthly Mag.
“This is, in all respects, so beautiful a book, that it would be scarcely
possible to suggest an improvement. Its contents are not for a year, nor for
an age, but for all time.”
—Examiner.
“The plan of this beautiful and splendid work is as admirable as it is
novel.”
—Literary Gazette.
“It is indeed a Book of Gems.”
—Times.
“A more desirable `Present Book' could not have been devised.”
—Court
Journal.
“It surpasses all that Art and Poetry have as yet completed among us.”
—
News.
“A truly aristocratic and chastely elegant book.”
—S. Times.
“A work which for beauty of illustration and elegance of arrangement, has
seldom if ever, been surpassed.”
—John Bull.
“This sumptuous book has not less than fifty three illustrations.”
—
Athenæum.
“It reflects high credit on the taste and ability displayed in its composition.”
—Morning Post.
“The Pleasure-book of the year—a treasury of sweets and beauties.”
—
Atlas.
“It is a book of itself. We believe that the combined talents of fifty-three
artists were never before brought to the illustration of one volume.”
—Observer.
A few Proof Impressions of the Splendid Illustrations
to the above work may still be had.
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