“The volume is indeed, a combination of good things well served. Gossip and portraiture and art are deftly interlaced, so that the reading of the pages is no less agreeable than instructive.” Charles Henry Hart.
| + | Dial. 43: 60. Ag. 1, ’07. 540w. |
“The ideal collector is he who has this instinct, supported by knowledge, but who has also felt the fascination of looking in at all the side-doors upon history which old prints open. Mr. Salaman is such an ideal collector, and so proves himself a true guide for the novice and a companion of the already wise.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 32: 336. O. ’07. 300w. |
“The book makes interesting reading; and yet there is too much of a certain air of attempted jocosity. An earnest reader will ask for a more grave and orderly treatment.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 268. S. 19, ’07. 940w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 490w. |
“If the old prints are worth anyone’s attention first of all because of their intrinsic merit as works of art, they are worth quite as much because they link us intimately with the past. A book has always been needed which should unite these two view points of art and life. At last it has come.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w. |
“Mr. Salaman gives a lucid and sufficient account of the engravers, and one which moreover is quite readable and intelligible to the inexperienced public. For this reason his book should be of value.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 19. Ja. 5, ’07. 1090w. | |
| + | Spec. 97: 398. D. 8, ’06. 200w. |