Excerpt from The Connoisseur, Vol. 41: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors; January-April, 1915<br><br>Written and illuminative as is the text, it is not too much to say that these illustrations constitute the most attractive and important portion of the volume. Many of them individually occupy a complete page of the volume (measuring about 14 in. By 11 and the smallest of them are of an adequate size to show the salient details of the works reproduced. The subjects have been selected with great discrimination, only good and characteristic specimens being chosen, while the quality of the reproductions is generally very high.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.