Excerpt from Goupil's Paris Salon of 1895: One Hundred Plates Photogravures and Etchings and One Water Color Fac-Simile<br><br>A fresh element of competition and public interest is supplied by the official admission of various minor works of art, such works, that is to say, as rarely used to be seen, and only when it was possible surreptitiously to override one of the old solemn rules, laid down at the beginning of the Catalogue as though it were the fagade of the Ecole des beaux-arts. The more liberal decision of the Société des beaux-arts coincided very happily with a marked revival of Arts and Crafts. It was immediately after 1889, and the beauty of our glass and pottery, our textile and metal works was notorious. Hence.<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.