Gems of English art of this century
Subtitle: twenty-four pictures from national collections
By: printed in colours by Leighton brothers with illustrative texts by Francis Turner Palgrave ...
Contributors: Smart, Francis Gray.; Leighton Brothers
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Painting, British -- 19th century.
Other titles: Gems of English art.
Notes: Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Some plates include areas printed in colour with metal.  All plates with imprint: "Leighton, Brothers.".

MASS copy 1: Bound in purple sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  With an elaborate decorative pattern and the title blocked in gold on the front cover over paper onlays coloured blue, red, brown and green.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  Spine with imprint: "Routledge".  With ownership inscription dated 1868: "Gertrude Julia Reid".  An earlier issue of McLean O 476.

MASS copy 2: Bound in purple sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design and with the same paper onlays as copy 1.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  Spine with imprint: "Routledge".  With bookplate: "Francis Gray Smart".
Table of contents: value: Edwin Landseer.; value: Charles Robert Leslie.; value: Gilbert Stuart Newton.; value: William Mulready.; value: John Linnell.; value: Augustus Wall Callcott.; value: William Collins.; value: Thomas Sydney Cooper.; value: Augustus Leopold Egg.; value: Daniel Maclise.; value: Clarkson Stanfield.; value: David Roberts.; value: John Constable.; value: David Wilkie.; value: Thomas Webster.; value: Joseph Mallord William Turner.; value: Francis Danby.; value: William Etty.; value: Charles West Cope.; value: Richard Redgrave.; value: James Ward.; value: John Frederick Herring.; value: Benjamin West.; value: Charles Lock Eastlake.