Excerpt from Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 71: January, 1865
All the parts correspond: there is no contrast between high and original design in one department of the work and coarse and uneven execution in another. Every where there is the same care, the same conscientiousness, the mastery over work; and the result is a book which hardly has its like in goodness, variety, and perfection of adornment among the productions of the English press.'
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