The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-03-18
$4,000 in Splendid Works of Art
Fiyc-Dollor Engraving to Ever Subscriber.
THE GREAT LIBRARY OFFER.

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F'iyc-Dollor Engraving TO Ever Subscriber
THE GREAT LIBRARY OFFER
Agents Getting Rich !!
/ The nuion ef E,ncrson's Magazine and Put
namS Monthly, has given to the CONSOLIDATED
work a circulation second to but one similar pub
LEGATION in the country, and has secured for il ,
combination If literary and artistic talent probab
y unrivaled by any other magazine in the world
! During the first month, the sale in the trade and
demand from subscribers exceeded 80 900 copies
and the numbers already issued Of the consoldat.
ed work are universally conceded to have sur
passed in the richness Of their LITERARY contents.
and the beauty and protllseness of their pictorial
Illustrations, any magazine ever before issued
from the American press. Encouraged hy these
evidences of favor, the publishers have deternir-
ed 70 commence the new volume in January with
still additional attractions, and to ofier such in
duccments to subscribers as cannot fail to place
1t, in circulation, at The head of American May-
zines. With this view they now announce the
following prograine. They have purchased that
superb and costly steel-plntc engraving,
THE LAST SUPPER"
and will present copy of it to every three-dol-
lar subscriber tor the year ls5-. II was engray-
ed at cost Of over $4,000, by the late celnbrat-
ed T. l.. Dick, from the original of Raphael Mur-
gn after Leonardo Da Ninci, and is the largest
steel-plate engraving ever executed in this coul-
try, being tfrp" times the size Of the ordinary
ihree-doar engrnyings
The first impressions Of this engraving are
held ut $40 and it was the intention of the artist
that none of the engravings should ever be offer
ed for less. sum than So, being richly worth
that amount. Thus every three-dollar subscriber
will receive the Magazine one year-eheap at S3
and this splendid engraving, richly worth IS
thus getting for S3 the value of S.
We shah commence striking off the engravings
yet it can hardly be expected that
impressions ct 50 large plate can be taken AS
fast as they can be called for by subscribers We
shall, therefore furnish them IN the order in which
are received. Those who desire to
obtain their eugravings early, and from the first |
impressions, sho,ild send in their subscriptions
without delay The engraving can be sent on
rollers, by mail, or in any manner, as subscribers
shall order.
$4,000 IN WORKS OF ART.
In addition to the superb engraviuga of 1.-THE |
LAST SUPPER" which will be presented to
every three-dollor SUBSCRIBER for 1865, the pulisl
FRS have completed arrangements for the distr
button, on the 18th day of December, 1863, of
series Of splendid works of art, consisting of one
hundred rich and rare Oil Paintings, valued at
roa $i00 to 81 600 each. Also, 1900 magifi-
cent steel-Platc Engrayings, worth from s.; to
S5 each, and 1000 choice Holiday Books, worth
from s to 81 each; making, in ALL over THREE
GIFTS, worth TWENTY THOU
SAND DOLLARS
INCLOSE $3 TOTHE PUBLISHERS AND
YOU WILL COMMENCE RECEIVING THE
MAGAZINE BY RETURN MAIL. YOU
VIII. ALSO RECEIVE WITH THE FIRST
copy \ NJ INFERRED SUBSCRIPTION RE
AEiPT EMITTING YOU TO THE ENGRA
WING OF
1.-THE LAST SUPPER"
md chance to draw one of these Three
Thousand Prizes"