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 this we wish to add that we hail with satisfaction the marvellous results from these many ingenious adaptations of photography, and the consequent wide spread of the art of illustration, which has ever been our greatest delight.

In preparing the contents of this book it would have been impossible to give the many specimens of our work but for the kind and liberal spirit with which our requests were responded to by the various publishers who had entrusted us with their commissions from our very earliest days. Our best thanks are due, in the first instance, to Messrs. Adam & Charles Black, for the loan of two engravings for the “Abbotsford Edition of Scott’s Novels,” which were amongst our first important works; the Art Union of London, for a specimen of Kenny Meadows’; Messrs. Macmillan, for specimens from “The Ingoldsby Legends,” “Tennyson’s Poems,” and “Alice in Wonderland”; Messrs. Bradbury & Agnew. for selections from Richard Deyle’s work ; Messrs, George Routledge & Sons, for specimens from “Gilbert’s Shakespeare” and various “Fine Art Books”; Messrs. Herbert Virtue & Co., for several from Millais’ “The Parables of Our Lord” and “Dalziel’s Bible Gallery” Messrs. Blackwood & Son, for “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,” by Sir J. Noel Paton; Messrs. James Nisbet & Co., for “Lays of the Holy Land;” Messrs. Longman &