Favourite English Pictures

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1879. First. Hardbound. VG-, ex-lib. perforation stamp on title page, ID tag on slipcase, slipcase shows some wear, title page leaf is soiled, papers have rough edges, some pieces missing from corners due to age and brittleness of the paper.. Black boards folder and black slipcase with gold lettering on spine, 36 loose-leaf pages, 16 BW prints. Very scarce. Includes works from J.M.W. Turner, John Burnet, Sir David Wilkie, Sir WIlliam Mulready, William Linton, Francis Danby, Clarkson Stanfield, J.F. Herring, Sir Edwin Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Thomas Webster, and W.P. Frith. Preface--This volume lays no claim to be considered as a contribution to the literature of art. It contains reproductions in autotype of sixteen of some of the best pictures which appeared on the walls of the Royal Academy in the second quarter of the present century, and which have always been favorites with the public. Though well enough known, many of the engravings from these pictures are now seldom to be obtained, and it is only by the agency of one of the most beautiful of the new processes of reproduction that the sixteen prints can now be offered at the original published price of one of them. The descriptions, which are given to add some little biographical and anecdotal interest to the engravings, are taken from Viardot's "History of Painters," and other well-known sources, which are duly acknowledged in the text.