“The more we turn over the pages of this book the more we like it. Italy is the theme of a great deal of fine writing and fine painting, but the plain descriptions and accurate drawings here really tell us more about it than a library of inspired poems, and a gallery of ideal painting.”—Times.
“An extremely beautiful and interesting book.”—Daily News.
“The result of keen observation and considerable reading, it is a very charming volume. It contains, in an unusual degree, the information of a handbook, and the attractiveness of a drawing-room album.”—British Quarterly Review.
“Not less interesting than was either of the corresponding volumes.”—Standard.
Spanish Pictures.
Drawn with Pen and Pencil. With Illustrations by Gustave Doré and other eminent
Artists. Imperial 8vo. 8s. cloth elegant.
“Another book about Spain, and a capital one: more distinctly calculated to catch the attention of persons on the look-out for present-books, and yet at the same time of solid merit.”—Literary Churchman.
“The pen is that of the author of ‘Swiss Pictures’; one of the pencils is Gustave Doré’s, and the others are not unworthy to be associated with his. It therefore follows that the letterpress is pleasant reading, and that many of the sketches are of the highest excellence.”—Times.
“A most exquisite book. It abounds with illustrations (some by Gustave Doré) of the most striking scenes, buildings, and social manners of the Peninsula, and realises in a series of brilliant and attractive pictures the romance, poetry, beauty, and inexpressible charms of the land of ‘Don Quixote.’”—Daily News.