American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 542
rry to my employer, to be transferred and re-engraved for a book he was about to publish, — that he supposed he would have to do them, aspeople now-a-days would not buy a book unless there were pictures in it. The two cuts wereto cost the enormous sum of twenty-five or twenty-eight dollars, I… … BLUE-FISHING. AMERICAN ART 441 was that of Harper Brothers. They pubHshed a series of English Poets, the reissue of a serieson the other side: well engraved there, here reproduced by apprentices in such fashion as youcan easily imagine, — perhaps as good as the prices then paid for such things.…
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