Excerpt from Notes to the Seventeenth Exhibition of the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts 1878: Containing 95 Illustrations, Chiefly From Drawings by the Artists<br><br>At the same time he regrets that the necessarily hurried nature of the work (occasioned by the impossibility of selecting the Pictures for Illustration until the Opening of the Exhibition), and the limited space at command have prevented the insertion of some of those received.<br><br>It was also found impossible to reproduce all the important works in the Galleries: the object has therefore been to illustrate those Pictures more particularly the production of native talent, and which will be of special interest to the Glasgow public.<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.