WORKS ON ART. 



Venus and Apollo 



IN 



PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, 



EDITED BY 



W. J. STILLMAN, 



Consisting of 41 large-sized Photogravures — forty of which are in 

 duplicate, and one in colours as a Frontispiece ; making in all 

 81 plates. 



The work contains all the best examples of Venus and of 

 Apollo — the world over — by the most famous old Masters and 

 Sculptors, selected and arranged with descriptive and historical 

 notes, and short biographies of all the Artists whose work is 

 represented, /?y W. J. Stillman. 



PRINTING: — The utmost care has been bestowed upon all the details of 



composition, imposition, register, and printing. 

 TEXT PAPER: — The choicest hand-made paper has been used. 

 PLATES : — The manufacture of the whole of the photogravures and their 



printing is the work of Lemercier & Co., from photographs by various 



celebrated photographers. 

 PLATE PAPER :— The finest Breton French plate paper has been used, and, 



for the duplicates of the 40 plates, the finest India paper mounted on the 



same Breton plate. 

 SIZE: — The size is Colombier 4to, forming a magnificent volume, some 18 by 



12 inches. 

 BINDING-: — All possible care has been expended on this, as on every other 



detail of the work. The plates are all mounted on guards and protected 



by bank paper, and the cover is of vellum and strawberry-coloured art 



linen, richly decorated with gold. The top is gilt. 



The 40 duplicates of the plates on India paper are in a portfolio 



accompanying the volume. 



555 copies only of (his Edition have been printed, 

 PRICE SIX GUINEAS NET. 



James M. Hoppin. GREEK ART ON GREEK SOIL. By 



James M. Hoppin, Professor of the History of Art in Yale University. 

 With twelve Illustrations. 8i/o, cloth extra, ornamental gilt top^ price js. 6d, 



