Engraved gems; their history and place in art, in which is embodied the author's former treatise, with extensive revisions and additions; reminiscences of travels in the pursuit and acquisition of engraved gems ... to which is added a descriptive list of the author's cabinet of gems, forming a compend of Greek and Roman classics and antiquities .. (1889)
Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904 · Philadelphia, M. Sommerville · leaf 283
f their fullperfection! As they were at the time of my visit, tliey seemed to speakto me and plead with me to avail myself of every possiblemoment to cultivate their acquaintance, to study their sublimeart-forms, that their beauties might be domiciled in my memory,while their substance was daily…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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