The world's pictures
Subtitle: a series of photographs of the fifteen most celebrated paintings in the world copied from the best engravings ; with an introduction.
Contributors: Rogers, W. Harry 1825-1873; Cundall and Fleming
Publisher: Bell and Daldy; Cundall and Fleming
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Painting -- History.
Notes: T.p. and preface printed in red and black.

Includes wood-engraved decorative initials, head-pieces and tail-pieces.

Introduction by "C. C. Black" dated 1868.

Each plate is accompanied by a page of description printed on one side only.

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover with signature: "WHR" [i.e. William Harry Rogers].  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With dark green painted endpapers. With presentation inscription dated December 1868. With later ownership label: "Anthony David Estill".  Encased in a later red cloth-covered clamshell box with paper title label on spine.  Box with label: "Box by A. D. E.".
Table of contents: value: The last supper by Leonardo da Vinci; value: The Madonna di Fuligno by Raphael; value: The Madonna di San Sisto by Raphael; value: The Transfiguration by Raphael; value: The marriage of St. Catherine by Correggio; value: St. Jerome (The Day) by Correggio; value: Adoration of the shepherds by Correggio; value: The Assumption of the Virgin by Titian; value: St. Peter Martyr by Titian; value: The raising of Lazarus by Sebastian del Piombo; value: The marriage at Cana by Paul Veronese; value: The Three Marys by Annibale Carracci; value: The Communion of St. Jerome by Domenichino; value: The Descent from the Cross by Rubens; value: The Immaculate Conception by Murillo.