DOI Heft:
No. 12 (March, 1894)
DOI Artikel:New publications
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0233
New Publications
Although it cannot be said that this admirable limited, as the cover might suggest, to the " Ex
book appeals to English collectors as strongly as Libris," but include papers on books and binding,
it must needs attract Americans, yet it is by no the standard of the United Kingdom, and kindred
means an unimportant chapter in the history of topics relating to books and heraldry, with a large
ceramics. Nor is it confined to objects of brie- number of book-plates, new and old. The frontis-
a-brac; the famous Low tiles, familiar from repro- piece is a very fine armorial design by John
ductions in The Century Magazi?ie, find a new Leighton, F.S.A., to whose facile pen and pencil
set of examples herein. The Rookwood ware— a large part of the book maybe credited, did not
the initials of his pseudonym "Luke Limner"
leave no doubt of their author.
Old English Minsters. By Fredk. W. Farrak,
D.D., and others. (London ; Isbister & Co.)—This
volume, dealing in its seven chapters with the
Minsters of Westminster, Canterbury, Durham,
Wells, Lincoln, Winchester, and Gloucester, is not
a guide-book pure and simple, but while a most ex-
cellent volume for the average visitor, is not less
admirable as a gift-book which may tempt younger
readers to adventure in, the ways of antiquaries,
thereby providing themselves with a lifelong
hobby. Probably nothing so moulds the artistic
future of a child as being brought up under the
shadow of one of these splendid monuments of
mediaeval art. In mere size he is accustomed to a
unit of measurement, that prevents our huge over-
grown masses of modern masonry assuming arro-
gant proportions.
Concerning the drawings by " Herbert Railton
and others," without any reflection on the " others,"
one is glad to discover that the unnamed are not
in the proportion of six to one, like the authors who
figure also as " others " in the collective ascription
of the title-page.
Apart from the very readable pages which tempt
one to quotation, the book appeals to every pen-
draughtsman in its charming studies of old archi-
tecture so admirably reproduced. The crumbling
line Mr. Railton delights in, and the texture suits
such studies as these, we were enabled to show
by the examples which, in an earlier number of
The Studio, figured as specimens of Mr. Chef-
deville's excellent process-work. Only one thing
mars the complete pleasure of the book—the cover;
a specimen of the average school-prize type which
not merely fails to indicate the dignity of its con-
tents, but is as out of place among the books
the volume has right to claim for neighbours, as
a yellow-backed novel would be among editions de
luxe. This, however, is easily remedied, even if
anning bell the publishers do not (as we hope they may) issue
an edition with uncut edges in plain binding,
also fairly well known on this side—is represented Tennyson and his Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators. By
by a very beautiful bowl, and several other G. Somes La yard. (London: Elliot Stock, js. 6d.)
specimens, which, together with the Cincinnati —Each day brings fresh evidence of the growing
ware bear witness to the admirably digested interest in the art of black and white illustration.
Japanese motives which have given America a Here, for example, is a book ostensibly prepared
distinct style in modern decorative art. solely to consider the engravings in a certain edition
The book is well printed, freely and capitally of Tennyson first published by Moxon in 1857,
illustrated and apparently, so far as an English and lately republished by Macmillans. Like most
critic may assess its value, a complete and trust- disciples of Rossetti, Mr. Layard is thorough in
worthy record of the growth of the potter's art in his hero-worship, at times perhaps too eulogistic, as
the New World. when he says, "The best of these pen-and-ink
The Book-Plate Annual and Armorial Year- drawings kiss these poems to a fuller and completer
Book, 1894. (London: A. & C. Black. 2.?. 6d.)— life." Mr. Layard espouses the cause of wood-cut-
The subjects in this well-produced annual are not ting versus process, and declares that certain of the
221
EDW\RD
PRIOLEAU
WARREN
Although it cannot be said that this admirable limited, as the cover might suggest, to the " Ex
book appeals to English collectors as strongly as Libris," but include papers on books and binding,
it must needs attract Americans, yet it is by no the standard of the United Kingdom, and kindred
means an unimportant chapter in the history of topics relating to books and heraldry, with a large
ceramics. Nor is it confined to objects of brie- number of book-plates, new and old. The frontis-
a-brac; the famous Low tiles, familiar from repro- piece is a very fine armorial design by John
ductions in The Century Magazi?ie, find a new Leighton, F.S.A., to whose facile pen and pencil
set of examples herein. The Rookwood ware— a large part of the book maybe credited, did not
the initials of his pseudonym "Luke Limner"
leave no doubt of their author.
Old English Minsters. By Fredk. W. Farrak,
D.D., and others. (London ; Isbister & Co.)—This
volume, dealing in its seven chapters with the
Minsters of Westminster, Canterbury, Durham,
Wells, Lincoln, Winchester, and Gloucester, is not
a guide-book pure and simple, but while a most ex-
cellent volume for the average visitor, is not less
admirable as a gift-book which may tempt younger
readers to adventure in, the ways of antiquaries,
thereby providing themselves with a lifelong
hobby. Probably nothing so moulds the artistic
future of a child as being brought up under the
shadow of one of these splendid monuments of
mediaeval art. In mere size he is accustomed to a
unit of measurement, that prevents our huge over-
grown masses of modern masonry assuming arro-
gant proportions.
Concerning the drawings by " Herbert Railton
and others," without any reflection on the " others,"
one is glad to discover that the unnamed are not
in the proportion of six to one, like the authors who
figure also as " others " in the collective ascription
of the title-page.
Apart from the very readable pages which tempt
one to quotation, the book appeals to every pen-
draughtsman in its charming studies of old archi-
tecture so admirably reproduced. The crumbling
line Mr. Railton delights in, and the texture suits
such studies as these, we were enabled to show
by the examples which, in an earlier number of
The Studio, figured as specimens of Mr. Chef-
deville's excellent process-work. Only one thing
mars the complete pleasure of the book—the cover;
a specimen of the average school-prize type which
not merely fails to indicate the dignity of its con-
tents, but is as out of place among the books
the volume has right to claim for neighbours, as
a yellow-backed novel would be among editions de
luxe. This, however, is easily remedied, even if
anning bell the publishers do not (as we hope they may) issue
an edition with uncut edges in plain binding,
also fairly well known on this side—is represented Tennyson and his Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators. By
by a very beautiful bowl, and several other G. Somes La yard. (London: Elliot Stock, js. 6d.)
specimens, which, together with the Cincinnati —Each day brings fresh evidence of the growing
ware bear witness to the admirably digested interest in the art of black and white illustration.
Japanese motives which have given America a Here, for example, is a book ostensibly prepared
distinct style in modern decorative art. solely to consider the engravings in a certain edition
The book is well printed, freely and capitally of Tennyson first published by Moxon in 1857,
illustrated and apparently, so far as an English and lately republished by Macmillans. Like most
critic may assess its value, a complete and trust- disciples of Rossetti, Mr. Layard is thorough in
worthy record of the growth of the potter's art in his hero-worship, at times perhaps too eulogistic, as
the New World. when he says, "The best of these pen-and-ink
The Book-Plate Annual and Armorial Year- drawings kiss these poems to a fuller and completer
Book, 1894. (London: A. & C. Black. 2.?. 6d.)— life." Mr. Layard espouses the cause of wood-cut-
The subjects in this well-produced annual are not ting versus process, and declares that certain of the
221
EDW\RD
PRIOLEAU
WARREN