"There need be no hesitation in pronouncing this work of Muther the most authoritative that exists on the subject, the most complete, the best informed of all the general histories of Modern Art."—Times.
"Not only the best, but the only history of Modern Painting which has any pretension to cover the whole ground."—Times (second notice).
"A monumental work ... of cyclopædic value.... This author is distinctly cheering. He has no slavish and indiscriminate admiration for the old masters, and his enthusiasm and his hopes are with the art of his time.... There are many illustrations, a copious bibliography, and a good index.... It is incomparably the best work of its kind; in some respects, the only one of its kind."—Daily News.
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THE PAGEANT, 1897. Edited by Charles Hazelwood Shannon and Gleeson White. With Twenty-six Full-Page Illustrations (including a Woodcut in Four Colours and Gold) and Ten Illustrations in the Text. Crown 4to, chocolate cloth extra, with a cover design by Charles Ricketts, and a coloured wrapper by Gleeson White, 6s. net; Large Paper Edition (limited to 150 copies), £1, 5s. net. These copies contain a special reproduction in photogravure of Rossetti's "Hamlet and Ophelia."
Contributions in Art by—
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, George Frederick Watts, R.A., Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Reginald Savage, Charles Hazelwood Shannon, Charles Ricketts, Laurence Housman, Charles Conder, Walter Crane, Will Rothenstein, William Strang, Lucien Pissarro.
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Austin Dobson, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Edmund Gosse, Mrs Marriott Watson, Lionel Johnson, D.S. MacColl, F. York Powell, Victor Plarr, Gleeson White, Michael Field, Angus Evan Abbott, Charles Ricketts, John Gray, W. Delaplaine Scull, Maurice Maeterlinck, Dr Richard Garnett, T. Sturge Moore, Edward Purcell, Selwyn Image, Max Beerbohm, Ernest Dowson.
THE PAGEANT, 1896. Edited by C.H. Shannon and Gleeson White. Ordinary Edition, 6s. net. Large Paper Edition, 150 Copies only. The price of the few that remain for sale has been raised to £1, 5s. net.
THE PARADE, 1897. A Gift-Book for Boys and Girls. Edited by Gleeson White. With 35 Full-Page Illustrations; 3 Coloured Plates; 10 Head-and Tail-Pieces; Illustrated Initials, Devices, &c. Crown 4to, scarlet cloth extra, with a Cover designed by Paul Woodroffe, coloured edges, 6s. net.
Contributions in Literature by—
John Oliver Hobbes, Mrs Molesworth, Laurence Housman, Sir Richard Burton, Alfred Jones, E.F. Strange, Edgar Jepson, Barry Pain, Mrs Mary E. Mann, F. Norreys Connell, Paul Creswick, Captain H.B. Strange, Robert Herrick, Mrs Percy Dearmer, Max Beerbohm, Richard Le Gallienne, Paul Rubens, Victor Plarr, Starr Wood, Francis Bate.
Contributions in Art by—
Paul Woodroffe, Aubrey Beardsley, Alan Wright, Miss de Montmorency, W.J. Overnell, Harold Nelson, Leslie Brooke, Laurence Housman, Alfred Jones, Leon Solon, A.A. van Anrooy, G.A. Gordon, Starr Wood, Mrs Percy Dearmer, Max Beerbohm, Charles Robinson, Nico Jungman, Miss Milne, William Shackleton, Henry Teixeira de Mattos.