It would be obviously out of place for us to comment upon the difference in treatment which we gave, and that of other engravers who were entrusted to operate upon some of the drawings he made for this book, or to remark upon the comparisons of certain critics writing upon the subject; we can only affirm that Mr. Rossetti expressed himself both verbally and by letter as being well pleased with our work. Writing on the receipt of two finished proofs, he says:
1 April
14 Chatham Place
E.C.
Dear Sir
Many thanks for the two proofs kindly sent—both of them now highly satisfactory & well repaying all your pains.
Yours faithfully
DS Rossetti
That Rossetti was a man difficult to please in his literary work as well as in his art, the following is an apt illustration:
In one of the "Allingham letters," he says: