“Among the numerous handsome reprints which the publishers of the day vie with each other in producing, we have seen nothing of greater merit than this series of twelve volumes. Those who have read these masterpieces of the last century in the homely garb of the old editions may be gratified with the opportunity of perusing them with the advantages of large clear print and illustrations of a quality which is rarely bestowed on such re-issues. The series deserves every commendation.”
Athenæum.
“A well-printed and tasteful issue of the ‘Thousand and One Nights.’ The volumes are convenient in size, and illustrated with Lalauze’s well-known etchings.”
Magazine of Art.
“The text of the new four-volume edition of the ‘Thousand and One Nights’ just issued by Messrs. Nimmo & Bain is that revised by Jonathan Scott, from the French of Galland; it presents the essentials of these wonderful stories with irresistible authority and directness, and, as mere reading, it is as satisfactory as ever. The edition, which is limited to a thousand copies, is beautifully printed and remarkably well produced. It is illustrated with twenty etchings by Lalauze.... In another volume of this series Beckford’s wild and gloomy ‘Vathek’ appears side by side with Johnson’s admirable ‘Rasselas.’”
Glasgow Herald.
“The merits of this new issue lie in exquisite clearness of type, completeness; notes and biographical notices, short and pithy; and a number of very fine etchings and portraits. In the ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ besides the well-known portrait of Defoe by Flameng, there are eight exceedingly beautiful etchings by Mouilleron.... In fine keeping with the other volumes of the series, uniform in style and illustrations, and as one of the volumes of their famous Old English Romances, Messrs. Nimmo & Bain have also issued the ‘Rasselas’ of Johnson and the ‘Vathek’ of Beckford.”
Westminster Review.
“Messrs. Nimmo & Bain have added to their excellent series of ‘Old English Romances’ three new volumes, of which two are devoted to ‘Tristram Shandy,’ while the third contains ‘The Old English Baron’ and ‘The Castle of Otranto.’ Take them as they stand, and without attributing to them any qualities but what they really possess, the whole series was well worth reprinting in the elegant and attractive form in which they are now presented to us.”
The Imitation of Christ.