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: Leighton Brothers; Burn & Co.
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons
Published: 1874
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.; Gems of modern English art.
Notes: Some plates include areas printed in colour with metal.  All plates with imprint: "Leighton, Brothers.".

Author's preface dated 1868.

MASS copy: Bound in red morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Burn  & Co".  With prize inscription: "Charles King Eley  A Prize from the Editor  of  Every Boy's Magazine".  A later issue of McLean O 475.  Date range based on prize inscription as found in this copy.  Every Boy's Magazine was published by Routledge, 1874-89, when it was incorporated with the Boy's own paper.  Cf. The Osborne collection of early children's books, 1958-1975: p. 402.
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.