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GREAT ART BOOKS
EDITED BY JOSEPH PENNELL.

Lithography and Lithographers:

SOME CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF THE ART.

With Technical Remarks and Suggestions by Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Together with 154 Illustrations, besides a Frontispiece Portrait of Joseph Pennell by James McNeill Whistler, and other original lithographs by A. Legros, W. Strang, C. H. Shannon, A. Lunois, J. McLure Hamilton and T. R. Way. (1312 x 1012 inches, xiii + 279 pp.) £3 13s. 6d. net. Also, a Fine Edition signed by Joseph Pennell; on Japan paper, £15 15s. net.

"The selection is done as admirably as the reproduction, which is saying much. . . . The authors .... present, in fact, the first complete and intelligent historical survey of the art in the different countries of the world." —St. James's Gazette.

"The present volume contains a great number of admirably-reproduced examples by many artists, and these illustrate in a very complete manner, not only the growth of ideas in regard to lithography, but also the varied possibilities of the stone in different hands."—Morning Post.


"The Greatest English Artist since Hogarth!"

The Work of Charles Keene.

With Introduction and Comments by Joseph Pennell, and numerous Pictures illustrative of the artist's method and vein of humour ; to which is added a Bibliography of Selected Works and Notes by W. H. Chesson. The Edition is limited to 750 copies (250 of these for America) , an Ordinary Edition at £3 13s. 6d. net., and 15 copies of a Fine Edition at £I5 15s. net.

"This work .... will be a revelation even to those who are beginning to estimate this consummate artist at his true merit."—Literature.

" Mr. Pennell's is the fullest critical appreciation of Keene we have yet had."—Daily News.

"Extraordinarily good and well worth having .... we thank Mr. Pennell very warmly for the thorough performance of a task that called out to be accomplished."—Daily Chronicle.

"The bibliography by Mr. W. H. Chesson .... is a labour of real merit and value, carried out in a thorough and workmanlike manner."—Graphic.


"The Masterpiece of a Great Spanish Artist!"

PABLO DE SEGOVIA:

The Adventures of a Spanish Sharper.

BY FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO.

Illustrated with over 100 Drawings by Daniel Vierge. With an Introduction on "Vierge and his Art," by Joseph Pennell; and "A Critical Essay on Quevedo, and his Writings," by H. E. Watts. Super royal 4to, parchment, old style (limited edition), £3 13s. 6d. net.


London : T. FISHER UNWIN, PATERNOSTER SQUARE.