During my consultations with officers at the front, as well as on the
Battle-field, I noted down with great care their conversations, and have
books full of material thus rescued from oblivion.
[Illustration: STANNARD'S BRIGADE OPENING ON PICKETTS' DIVISION.]
Since the publication of the Drawing, and even before, I have been
steadily engaged in compiling the History of the Battle of Gettysburg. I
have traveled many thousand miles to add to my knowledge. I have
received a great number of letters relating to it, and the Government
have very considerately placed at my disposal the entire Reports of both
the Union and Confederate officers; and have also given me access to the
archives at Washington. They have recently ordered a re-survey of the
field, which is now being done by Government Engineers in the most
complete and scientific manner. A fine Topographical map is to be
compiled and engraved, copies of which I have arranged to have to
illustrate my History of the Battle. This book, in addition to the maps,
which will cost several thousand dollars, will also be illustrated with
Steel Plates and Wood-Cuts in a manner second to no book heretofore
published in this country. Over $7,500 worth of illustrations are
already engraved to embellish it, including fine Steel Portraits,
executed by the best engravers in America, in line and stipple, of
Generals Reynolds, Doubleday, Newton, Meredith, Stannard, Hancock,
Gibbon, Zook, Hays, Webb, Hall, Sickles, Birney, Humphreys, Berdan,
Sykes, Barnes, Tilton, Wright, Bartlett, Wheaton, Howard, Ames, Slocum,
Williams, Geary, Kane, Pleasanton, Butterfield, Warren, Hunt, Ingalls,
Randolph, Martin, and McGilvrey. Several others are in hand, and
undoubtedly more will be added to the list. In addition to these the
Portraits of leading Confederate Generals will be engraved. Many of the
prominent scenes of the battle have already been beautifully designed
and engraved on wood, samples of which embellish this circular, others
are to be added, and to those interested I shall be pleased to furnish
full information regarding either portraits or wood-cuts.
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I shall publish a POPULAR EDITION of the history, with portraits printed
from transfers, and bound in cloth. Price. $7.50
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The next will be the LIBRARY EDITION, royal octavo, printed on good fair
paper, good plates, and substantially bound in sheep. $12.00
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The same size printed on fine paper. Proof Portraits--bound in half
morocco, beveled boards. $17.50
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A FINE EDITION on tinted paper. Proof Portraits. Full morocco, gilt,
beveled boards, gilt edges. $25.00
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A LARGE PAPER EDITION (limited) will be printed from new type, and the
original wood-cuts in the best style of modern hand-press work, on heavy
toned paper, with the finest INDIA PROOF PORTRAITS. In Sheets, stitched,
uncut, $100.00