DOI issue:
Nr. 192 (March 1909)
DOI article:Reviews and notices
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20966#0193
Reviews and Notices
ioo pages at the end, and these are followed by a
key by means of which the owner of any given
crest may be identified, and a concise glossary of
heraldic terms. The second volume is wholly
devoted to illustrations, which consist of 314 en-
graved plates printed on a tinted ground, the
number of crests figured thereon amounting alto-
gether to upwards of 4,000, of which 1,330 are
entirely new. An exhaustive work of this kind
has, of course, a special interest for designers and
craftsmen in many branches of industry, and to
such we can unreservedly recommend it.
To Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co.’s
‘Westminster” series of technical handbooks
a volume by Mr. Arthur Louis Duthie has
been added, dealing with Decorative Glass Processes.
(6s. net.) The processes treated of by the author,
who has had practical experience of them as a
designer and executant, are those involved in leaded
lights, stained glass, embossing or “ etching,”
brilliant cutting and bevelling, the sand-blast,
gilding, silvering, and mosaic. Special chapters
are devoted to proprietary and patented processes,
and at the outset an account is given of the various
kinds of glass employed in the processes described.
In the new issue of The Year's Art, edited by
Mr. A. C. R. Carter, and published by Messrs.
Hutchinson & Co. (cloth, 35. 6d. net), eight of the
nine illustrations are views of the art galleries in
the Franco-British Exhibition of last year; and
Mr. Marion Spielmann contributes a succinct
account of the unique display of works gathered
together on that occasion. The directory of art
workers, one of the many useful features of this
carefully edited annual, has been enlarged, and now
occupies nearly 200 out of the 600 odd pages of
letterpress.
John Smith’s Catalogue Raisonne of the Works
of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French
Painters, after being out of print for many years
and so scarce that as much as ^25 or ^30 has
had to be paid for the set of nine volumes, has
been reprinted and issued by Messrs. Sands & Co.,
of London and Edinburgh, at the price of five
guineas net. The text is precisely the same' as
that of the original issue, the binding and general
format of which have also been matched, but the
reprint has the advantage of a series of 42 photo-
gravure plates distributed throughout the first eight
volumes. The comparatively low price at which
this important work is now obtainable will doubt-
less ensure a quick sale of the limited edition
which has been printed.
A valuable companion to Smith’s Catalogue
Raisonne will be found in certain volumes of the
Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben, published
by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt at Stuttgart. In
each of the volumes composing this series excellent
half-tone reproductions are given of all the known
paintings of one or other great master. Thus the
volume on Rembrandt, of which the third impres-
sion has recently appeared (Mk. 14, cloth), gives in
its 643 illustrations (mostly full-page) reproductions
of all authenticated paintings of the great Dutch
master, together with those by pupils of his on
which he is known to have worked, a few that
have been lost sight of, and others falsely attributed
to him. The volume is prefaced by a carefully
written biographical sketch from the pen of Adolf
Rosenberg, and at the end, besides a useful series
of notes, a list, arranged topographically, is given
of present owners of the pictures.
An important work dealing with the history of
Viennese porcelain has been issued by the Hof-
und Staats-Druckerei in Vienna, under the title of
Die Kaiserl. Konigl. Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur
(Mk. 150). The work is the outcome of an exhi-
bition of Old Viennese Porcelain, held at the
Austrian Museum for Art and Industry four years
ago, and is illustrated by forty-two very fine plates,
including twelve in colour, as well as illustrations
interspersed throughout the text, which as regards
the first period, before the factory came under the
protection of Maria Theresa, has been written by
Dr. Braun, director of the Museum at Troppau,
while its subsequent history is dealt with by
Regierungsrat J. Folnesics, custodian of the Aus-
trian Museum.
Two novelties in fountain pens have been placed
on the market by the makers of the famous Water-
man Ideal Fountain Pen—one a pen which is self-
filling, and the other a pen made especially for
travellers, and quite proof against climatic derange-
ments. It is interesting to note that last month
was the 25th anniversary of the Waterman “ Ideal ”
pen, for it was on February 12, 1884, that Mr. L.
E. Waterman, its inventor, after making a small
number, effected his first sale in New York. The
universal popularity of the pen is the best tribute
to its sterling qualities.
Another anniversary in this year of anniversaries
is that of the Carron Company, which dates the
beginning of its business career no less than 150
years back. The Company has by the excellence
of its manufactures, such as grates, stoves, lavatory
fittings, and so forth, gained a wide and well-
deserved reputation, both at home and abroad.
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ioo pages at the end, and these are followed by a
key by means of which the owner of any given
crest may be identified, and a concise glossary of
heraldic terms. The second volume is wholly
devoted to illustrations, which consist of 314 en-
graved plates printed on a tinted ground, the
number of crests figured thereon amounting alto-
gether to upwards of 4,000, of which 1,330 are
entirely new. An exhaustive work of this kind
has, of course, a special interest for designers and
craftsmen in many branches of industry, and to
such we can unreservedly recommend it.
To Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co.’s
‘Westminster” series of technical handbooks
a volume by Mr. Arthur Louis Duthie has
been added, dealing with Decorative Glass Processes.
(6s. net.) The processes treated of by the author,
who has had practical experience of them as a
designer and executant, are those involved in leaded
lights, stained glass, embossing or “ etching,”
brilliant cutting and bevelling, the sand-blast,
gilding, silvering, and mosaic. Special chapters
are devoted to proprietary and patented processes,
and at the outset an account is given of the various
kinds of glass employed in the processes described.
In the new issue of The Year's Art, edited by
Mr. A. C. R. Carter, and published by Messrs.
Hutchinson & Co. (cloth, 35. 6d. net), eight of the
nine illustrations are views of the art galleries in
the Franco-British Exhibition of last year; and
Mr. Marion Spielmann contributes a succinct
account of the unique display of works gathered
together on that occasion. The directory of art
workers, one of the many useful features of this
carefully edited annual, has been enlarged, and now
occupies nearly 200 out of the 600 odd pages of
letterpress.
John Smith’s Catalogue Raisonne of the Works
of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French
Painters, after being out of print for many years
and so scarce that as much as ^25 or ^30 has
had to be paid for the set of nine volumes, has
been reprinted and issued by Messrs. Sands & Co.,
of London and Edinburgh, at the price of five
guineas net. The text is precisely the same' as
that of the original issue, the binding and general
format of which have also been matched, but the
reprint has the advantage of a series of 42 photo-
gravure plates distributed throughout the first eight
volumes. The comparatively low price at which
this important work is now obtainable will doubt-
less ensure a quick sale of the limited edition
which has been printed.
A valuable companion to Smith’s Catalogue
Raisonne will be found in certain volumes of the
Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben, published
by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt at Stuttgart. In
each of the volumes composing this series excellent
half-tone reproductions are given of all the known
paintings of one or other great master. Thus the
volume on Rembrandt, of which the third impres-
sion has recently appeared (Mk. 14, cloth), gives in
its 643 illustrations (mostly full-page) reproductions
of all authenticated paintings of the great Dutch
master, together with those by pupils of his on
which he is known to have worked, a few that
have been lost sight of, and others falsely attributed
to him. The volume is prefaced by a carefully
written biographical sketch from the pen of Adolf
Rosenberg, and at the end, besides a useful series
of notes, a list, arranged topographically, is given
of present owners of the pictures.
An important work dealing with the history of
Viennese porcelain has been issued by the Hof-
und Staats-Druckerei in Vienna, under the title of
Die Kaiserl. Konigl. Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur
(Mk. 150). The work is the outcome of an exhi-
bition of Old Viennese Porcelain, held at the
Austrian Museum for Art and Industry four years
ago, and is illustrated by forty-two very fine plates,
including twelve in colour, as well as illustrations
interspersed throughout the text, which as regards
the first period, before the factory came under the
protection of Maria Theresa, has been written by
Dr. Braun, director of the Museum at Troppau,
while its subsequent history is dealt with by
Regierungsrat J. Folnesics, custodian of the Aus-
trian Museum.
Two novelties in fountain pens have been placed
on the market by the makers of the famous Water-
man Ideal Fountain Pen—one a pen which is self-
filling, and the other a pen made especially for
travellers, and quite proof against climatic derange-
ments. It is interesting to note that last month
was the 25th anniversary of the Waterman “ Ideal ”
pen, for it was on February 12, 1884, that Mr. L.
E. Waterman, its inventor, after making a small
number, effected his first sale in New York. The
universal popularity of the pen is the best tribute
to its sterling qualities.
Another anniversary in this year of anniversaries
is that of the Carron Company, which dates the
beginning of its business career no less than 150
years back. The Company has by the excellence
of its manufactures, such as grates, stoves, lavatory
fittings, and so forth, gained a wide and well-
deserved reputation, both at home and abroad.
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