WITH TWENTY-TWO COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS BY THE FOLLOWING
EMINENT ARTISTS.
T. CRESWICK, R.A.
C. DAVIDSON.
W. LEE.
J. MULLER.
E. DUNCAN.
BIRKET FOSTER.
D. COX.
H. LE JEUNE.
W. HEMSLEY.
C. BRANWHITE.
J. WOLF.
C. WEIGALL.
HARRISON WEIR.
R. R.
E. V. B.
LUCETTE E. BARKER.
"Christmas has seldom produced a gift-book more creditable to all
concerned in it than this beautiful volume. The poetry is well chosen;
the passages being for the most part bits of real description,
excellent in their kind, from the writings of our poets, from the time
of Lord Surrey to that of Tennyson, with two or three beautiful bits
from American authors. Now and then a poem is inserted, which, if not
descriptive, is in spirit and feeling akin to the season to which it is
referred; and this gives variety to what might otherwise be too great a
mass of description. As a book of extracts merely, it would be an
intelligent and creditable selection, made upon a distinct and coherent
plan. But the drawings of Messrs. Foster, Davidson, Weir, Creswick,
Cox, Duncan, and Branwhite, are a great addition to the volume; and the
coloured engravings have been happy in catching the spirit and
character of the artist themselves.
"Though on a small scale, the feeling of some of the designs is
admirable, specially those devoted to the illustration of spring and
summer--the seasons which, both in poetry and painting, have the
greatest amount of honour in this volume. The publisher is entitled to
the praise of great care and attention to the appearance of the book;
the colour and texture of the paper, the type, and the binding are
unexceptionable. It is a book to do credit to any
publisher."--_Guardian._
GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street.
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Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5 New
Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and
published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St.
Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet
Street aforesaid.--Saturday, January 15. 1853.