Mr. C. Lewis Hind in the DAILY CHRONICLE.—"Congratulations to Mr. Ralph Nevill! He has produced an art book that presents itself almost as a novelty—the proper kind of art book, too: a hundred pages and more of catalogue, fifty illustrations, and the text informative and bearing the signs of erudition and enthusiasm.... A pretty book, yes; but a book also of knowledge which the collector of eighteenth-century French prints must possess."
MORNING POST.—"A better book could not be desired. Mr. Nevill is a cultured critic and perfectly versed in his subject. He writes with equal vigour and effect, whether he is giving us biographical notices of artists and the history of the development of line and colour printing in France, or analysing the differences in the various states of the more important specimens. The work is admirably and very completely illustrated."
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"A book crowded with curious information, and which the collector, in spite, perhaps, of his little group of M. Bocher's volumes, cherished during long years, must feel it his business to possess.... We thank him for a book which must have cost him labour; but which he must have executed with enjoyment, and in the happy possession of an overflowing measure of the connoisseur's knowledge. The book will certainly push appreciably further into English hands those charming instances of Eighteenth-Century Line Engraving which record, not only beautiful and dignified interiors, and the sunlit, statue-studded gardens, and cool streams and skies of France, but, more even than these, and to yet greater effect, the graceful pose and the spontaneous cordial gesture of such a chosen people, in irresponsible and radiant hours."
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