The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-03
Fine Book.

When a railroad company issues. for
gratuituous distribution so superb a
publication as Picturesque B. & o."
try will have to exert themselves lively
to produce works which will be deemed
worthy Of sale. To take up and look
over this latest Offering of the Passen-
ger Department of the Baltimore 81
Ohio, one cannot but be amazed that
such a book has been made solely for
the purpose of free distribution. The
majority of illustrated works now SELL
ing in the stores for seventy-fiv cents
to a dollar are no more to be compared
with picturesque B. & o." than is
silk to calico. For that matter, many
pretentious presentation books which
command big figures holiday time are
/. long way inferior to this exquisite
publication, which issto be given away
for the asking.
AS a matter Of course, it is an adver-
tisement of the Baltimore s. Ohio road,
but no n ever before saw such an ad-
yertisement, and there is so little of
such character about it that the most
fastidious Of critics can find nothing to
carp at. The book is written in a chat
| ty, unassuming style, the author, Mr..
j. G.. Pangborn, having had many
years newspaper experience, and there
fore understanding that the public ear
is not, as a rule. attuned to the strictly
classical in expression and construction.
The illustrations are the great charm
Of the work. and they are introduced
in perfect taste and with almost prodi-
gal p~rofusion. No publication in paper
cover aver excelled if indeed equalled
it, and when 1t is stated that Thomas
Moran made upward of seventy Of the
drawings, the reader is prepared to be-
lieve the claim just made. Ordinarily
the finest of periodicals contain from
forty to fifty illustrations, and general
ly half of these are exchange cuts from
European source, and to cultured pat
rons not strictly new. picturesque
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hundred illustrations, every one of
them absolutely new, and drawn and
cut expressly for it. OF the artists en-
gagged other than Moran were David
son, w. Hamilton Gibson, Sol Eytinge,
Sheppard, Ferris and Warren, The
corps Of engravers employed was we'll
in keeping with the distinguished rank
of the artists, embracing Bogert, Har-
ley, Davis, Element, Morse, Held, Fill
mer, Lauderbacher, Mayer, Karst, and
others of like celebrity in wood engra-
wing circles.
The taste displayed in the form and
decoration Of the pictures is something
entirely out Of the usual run, and in
this respect, if in none other, the book
will be a model for years to come. The
printing is by knight & Leonard, of
Chicago, and those who have for years
argued that fine book work cannot be
done west Of the Hudson river will
have to make on exception in this case
Although the cuts and letterpress have
been worked in the same form, the one
has not been sacrificed in the slightest
to the other, and the book upon the
whole made s%trikingly perfect. The
American Bank Note company, o.
New York, furnished the cover, and II
IS a matchless piece of color printing
The production Of a solid old gold
shade with the contrast of deep brown.
and blue black shows the most artistic
handling, and the best printer in the
country will ponder long over the ques
ton as to how the effects were reached
picturesque B. & o." will go into
many n library and be long treasured
there.
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