Studio: international art (10.1897)

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for small editions, that so sumptuous a book can by W. H. Bradley, Louis J. Rhead, Edward Penfield,

be issued for a guinea. It is to be hoped that the Steinlen, Cheret, Grasset, Mucha, Beardsley, and

very worthy task Mr. Way has set himself, of others. Among them are several drawings which

recording fine architecture doomed to be swept are not posters and were never intended to be,

away by modern improvements, will not cease with notably a drawing made expressly by Mr. Beardsley

DRAWING BY JOSEPH SATTLER „ ,

FROM " GESCHICHTE DER RHEINISCHEN STADTEKULTUR (J. A. STARGARm)

this collection. There should be material for
several others equally interesting.

Posters in Miniature. With an introduction by
Edward Penfield. (London and New York:
John Lane).—This is a collection of reproductions
in black and white of some notable posters that
have appeared in recent years in Europe and
America. It includes interesting examples of work

for The Studio, which appeared as a supplement
to the October Number of 1895. In its reproduc-
tion in solid black and white this drawing has lost
its chief charm. It is, of course, only natural that
many designs should suffer in effect when reduced
into black and white. M. Cheret's designs are
singularly unfortunate in this respect, and the illus-
trations of his work given in this collection are no

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