Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning but the plates are excellent and bright. 1901 edition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> As a Student in Art the idea occurred to me that if good reproductions of the great pictures could be obtained at a reasonable price a very great want might be supplied; good reproductions have always been expensive luxuries and consequently denied to the majority of picture lovers. I have endeavoured in this work to bring together a collection of Pictures which may be termed the gems of the World’s Art Collections with the object of elevating the taste of the public generally to an appreciation of what is most beautiful in Art and to enable those who have not the means of visiting the Picture Galleries of the World to at least have good reproductions of some of the finest pictures that have ever been painted. Suitable acknowledgment is given in its proper place to those who have so courteously allowed their Pictures to be reproduced but I would here take the opportunity of acknowledging my indebtedness to all who by suggestion or otherwise have helped me in the production of this work; particularly I would mention Sir Edward Poynter P.R.A. Briton Riviere Esq. R.A. and William Bouguereau Esq. (Member of the Institute of France); also M. H. Spielmann Esq. (Editor of the Magazine of Art) whose assistance has been invaluable and upon whom has rested the responsibility of making the final selection of Pictures. (OS)