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those who may not be familiar with his former works will at 
once comprehend, in Jooking over the five first Lithographs in 
this volume. I say with perfect confidence that it remains 
yet for Art in this country, to approach the amazing fidelity 
and spirit of these Drawings—and his glorious Portfolio is but 
yet just opened! I shall give in addition—as in this volume—- 
five other Lithographs of Foreign Scenes quite as elaborately 
drawn, but of less costly finish. And I hope so far to perfect, 
through the skill of my Lithographer, Mr. Rosenthall, the 
processes by which he has produced these unparalleled speci- 
mens of the art of Printing in colors upon stone, as to be able 
to present all the figures of animal life in color and at a cost 
which will come within the limit of that of the present volume. 
This I shall regard as indeed a triumph. But the Reader will 
perceive, that in the singular skill with which the colorist and 
lithographer, have produced the pictures for this volume, I 
and he have much to anticipate. I hope through such able 
seconding to demonstrate, that the art of printing in colors, 
which is yet in embryo in Europe, has been left for us to de-. 
velope in this country, as we have that of Daguerreotyping. 
I scarcely think that any specimens of that mysterious art 
can be produced in England, where it has been longest a 
subject of emulation, that will compare with my first five litho- 
graphs by Rosenthall and Kramer, from Miller—at least I 
am very well content to abide the issue of public sentiment 
with regard to this first experiment in a novel field ! 
Here I would introduce to the Reader a new ally—such an 
one as certainly is not often presented in such enterprises. 
This is no less a personage than my “little Wife,” Mrs. E. M. 
Webber, whose portrait you see associated with my own yn 
the title page of this volume. She is an Artist; and to her 
hand I am indebted for much of the fine work in illustration 
of this volume. But this is not her peculiar field—the delicate 
accuracy of the Woman artist will be more prominently and 
sharacteristically displayed in our second volume, the title 
of which will be “ Wild Scenes and Song Birds of the World.” 
