FAVOURITE PLEASURE BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE HUNDRED PICTURES, BY JOHN ABSOLON, PRINTED IN COLOURS. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON, AND CO. 47 LUDGATE HILL. 1859. THE Illustrations to this little Book were printed in colours from a succession of engraved Wood-blocks, at a machine worked by steam, and several thousand copies were worked off at the same time. By no other means could such well-coloured Pictures be produced at such a moderate price. |