The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

NOTICES

We could not have believed it possible to add to the
-estimation in which we have always held the most grace-
Yet this series has en-

ful artist of our ag

ld country

hanced it, and s

venture to affirm it will be with all who

The prints are so full of beauty ; so natural,
and yet so abundant in grace; so freely conceived, and so

examine it

Jrnirably composed ; the figures being so faultlessly grouped,
tad every detail so applicable and so fitting, that we must
class the collection far above any book-illustrations of our
--, The volume of cld John Bunyan, so embellished. is
-!ore of guadily-dressed quartos, that seem dwindled
by a sense of their own worthlessness. The drawings, more-
engraved as they ought to have been ; it is
fling in these days of stipple-poverty to find
itchell, Goodall, R. Graves, Sangster, Watt,
wing book-plates, and reminding ns of the
pencil was so eloquent, whose concep-
iration, and who has left us a store of
in extent as they are wonderful for

worth a s

absolutely refl.(
such men as ik

Teat old man s'li

tions were akin to insp:

wisdom. Mr. Seeley has entitled himself to the gratitude of
all who love art, by raking up these hidden treasures and
placing them where tens of thousands may learn from them."
—Art Union, December, 1839.

" The lamented Stothard's charming and characteristic
designs from Bunyan's immortal work."—Literary Gazette,
December 28111, 1839.

" This is one of the most elegant volumes which have met
our eye for a long time. It is beautifully printed, and the
illustrations, which are numerous, comprising engravings on
copper (steel) and wood, are of the very first excellence. The
former are from the designs of Stothard, and they are, in our
opinion, his chefs d'altrra."—Asiatic Journal, Jan., 1840.
" This is, without exception, the most beautifully-illus-
trated edition of any standard work with which we arelic-
quainted ; and when we mention that it is embellished by an
admirably engraved series of no fewer than seventeen of the
noblest productions of the pencil of our British Itatiaelle, the
late lamented Mr. Stothard, and is printed and edited in a
style worthy alike the name of John Bunyan, and the exquisite
engravings with which the work is embellished, our readers
will not consider praise so unqualified as hyperbolical. As a set
of book illustrations, executed in the hey day of the painter's
power, they are unrivalled by any series of engravings which
have lately fallen under our notice."—United Service Ga-
zette, January 4, 1840.
" Stothard ' never touched a subject without investing it
with some new grace of beauty pecular to himself.' Were
this not sufficiently evident from any of his antecedent works,'
it would be amply proved. by the present, wherein he seems
thoroughly to have caught the spirit of the author; and lent
an additional charm to pages replete with interest before."—
Parthenon, Jan. 25, 1840.

of Bunyan's

,nd all comparison, the most beautiful edition
'at
enchanter than has yet seen the light.
paper, and pictorial illustrations, are equal
:imens of this improving, age, and, to our
ttions are inure happy and less disfigured by
iti any we have ever had the opportunity of
vanyelical Magazine, February, 1810.
;option, the best and most beautiful edition
tes are from Stothard's designs, and this is
:eefur their e!egance and beauty."—arfor4

la ample g•
'Jerald, Ja

which con.

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n of this edition are the illustrations'
lithe best designs we ever saw from
as that artist was—we must
g this edition to every admireti
me time, the most splendidand

zinent

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teen Engravings from Designs by the
ARD, Esq., R.A. With Descriptive
G. Townsend, M.A., Prebendary of

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IMPORT OF CogN.—On the 25th, dock dues were paid on
40 vessels arriving at Hull, being, we are inform ed
largest number known on one day. They were principal 1'
laden with grain.—Eastern Counties Herald.
The Great Western sailed this (Wednesday) mornir'g,
with 133 passengers, the largest number, we believe, she has
ever had ; of these there are not less than 45 ladies. G. C
Cambreliug, the United States ambassador, at the court of
Russia, is among the passengers. She likewise takes ou
6650 letters and newspapers, and a full cargo of manufactured
goods, principally silks, worsted and cottons, and was obliged
to refuse several tons, being already full.—Bristol Gazette.
SIIOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday evening, a boy named
George Wright, the son of a milkman in Earl-street, Borough-
road, got up on the back part of a four-wheeled street crib,
which was at that time proceeding along the Borough-road at
a moderate pace. He seated himself on one of the springs,
and shortly afterwards his blouse became entangled in the
spokes of one of the hind wheels, between which and the
body of the cab his head was drawn. The loud screams of
females who were passing and witnessed the perilous situation
tip? boy, arrested the attention of the driver, who imme-
to St. Th' 0,,7
was a task
°_, c y pulled up, and thereby saved him from instant death.
He was, however.
jammed betty ier, very seriously injured, and was cOors. ye 1
r 8 Hospital, arteriaving been extracated, 'ivhioa
she
difficulty, his head being so tightly
necessary
e rig t thigh to,procure.ia wrench and remove the wheel before
11byutcoillnusea.
'Ye"! the wheel and the panel as to render it
shrieked dreadfullayseou
be could be lei
-le appeared to suffer much, and
. hhis way to the hospital, where it was
discovered that th
was fractured, and the head
tic
telcyk dr e
sensible,ad t ii
The poor child continues
very precarious state.—Times.
perfectly