FIFTY BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS
FROM
ORIGINAL PICTURES,
BY FIFTY LIVING PAINTERS.
This beautiful Work, which is a perfect novelty among the embellished publications of the day, presents the combined attractions of Poetry, Painting, and Engraving. It is splendidly illustrated with upwards of Fifty exquisitely finished Engravings from Original Pictures by the most distinguished living Painters, and altogether forms one of the most beautiful library, drawing-room, and present books which the advanced state of the Arts has hitherto produced.
Critical Notices.
"The Book of Gems seems too fair to be looked upon, combining all those external decorations which made the Annuals so attractive with something far better than the vapid prose and milk-and-water poetry of which their staple generally consisted. It is a book more lovely to the sense than the most gorgeous of the tribe of Souvenirs and Forget-me-nots; and unlike them, it will be as valuable twenty years hence as it is now. The very conception of such a book deserves no little praise, and its execution the very highest. For its combined attractions to the man of taste and the lover of art, this work has no rivals in the annals of book making."—American Monthly Mag.
"This is, in all respects, so beautiful a book, that it would be scarcely possible to suggest an improvement. Its contents are not for a year, nor for an age, but for all time."—Examiner.
"The plan of this beautiful and splendid work is as admirable as it is novel."—Literary Gazette.
"This sumptuous book has not less than fifty-three illustrations."—Athenæum.
"The Pleasure-book of the year—a treasury of sweets and beauties."—Atlas.
A few Proof Impressions of the Splendid Illustrations to the above work may still be had.
SOCIETY IN AMERICA
BY
HARRIET MARTINEAU,
AUTHOR OF "ILLUSTRATIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY."