[Sixteen-Pence.
THE beautiful illustrations have been carefully and separately struck off direct from the original copper-plates themselves—the only method of printing by which the minuteness and beauty of the engraved work can be properly rendered.
“A marvellously cheap series illustrated with charming survivals of the age of copperplate printing.”—Saturday Review.
SOLOMON GESSNER.
Solomon Gessner, “The Swiss Theocritus.” With Six Illustrations and Extra Portrait from the Original Copper-plates engraved in 1802 by Robert Cromek, from Drawings by Thomas Stothard, R.A., and a Preface by John Oldcastle. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.
[Sixteen-Pence.
THE beautiful illustrations have been carefully and separately struck off direct from the original copper-plates themselves—the only method of printing by which the minuteness and beauty of the engraved work can be properly rendered.
“The choice engravings from the original plates will have a charm of thousands.”—St. James’s Gazette.