IN THE HIGHEST STYLE OF ART, FROM DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS BY THE MOST CELEBRATED ARTISTS, NOW IN THE COURSE OF PUBLICATION BY MR. MURRAY. PUBLISHED BY SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 65, CORNHILL. 1832. CABINET CYCLOPÆDIA. VOL. XXIX. 2 ADDRESS. It is a subject of general observation and regret, that, notwithstanding the present enthusiastic admiration and encouragement of the Fine Arts, no Series of Pictorial Illustrations has hitherto appeared, which is worthy of the name and genius of BYRON. The Plates which Mr. MURRAY is now publishing, simultaneously with his complete and elegant edition of the noble Poet's Works, are, unquestionably, beautiful specimens of Art, whereon the burin of Finden has been employed with its accustomed excellence; but they entirely consist of Portraits, and Landscape views of those scenes which are incidentally described in the several Poems. A rich and abundant harvest still remains to be gathered in. The glorious "imaginings," which the mind of BYRON alone could conceive, are yet to be embodied to the eye of his admirers, by the aid of graphical illustrations, whereby the Genius of Painting may contribute her fairest forms to decorate the immortal creations of Poetry. It is the confessedly ambitious design of the Proprietors of the present Work, to supply a deficiency which is alike the occasion of surprise and concern. They boldly declare their conviction of the inadequacy of all previous attempts to depict the characters which the Muse of BYRON has summoned into existence; and they invite the patronage of the Public to a proposed connected Series of Illustrations of the Works of LORD BYRON, which shall be worthy of the fame of the Poet, and which shall challenge the admiration of the refined and fastidious taste of the present age. The distinguished talent employed upon the Work: the careful and laborious industry with which its details are superintended: the unsparing employment of capital: and the insignificant price affixed, abundantly prove that the Proprietors not only aim at the highest excellence, but that they depend alone upon the most extensive sale for their remuneration. CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION. I. The Illustrations will be engraved in the highest style of the Art, and by the best Engravers in the kingdom, from Drawings and Paintings by the most celebrated Artists. II. They will be completed in Six, or, at most, in Eight Parts, each containing Five Plates, which will be adapted, by the size of the paper, for binding up with any edition of BYRON'S Works. Ample directions will be given in the last Part to the Binder. III.—Part I. will appear on the 1st of May next, and the succeeding Parts on the First Day of every subsequent alternate month. The Series will thus reach its term of completion at the same time with the new edition of BYRON now publishing by Mr. MURRAY, which it is more especially the object of these Engravings to illustrate. IV. The price of each Part, neatly done up in a coloured wrapper, will be Four Shillings and Sixpence; at which sum, when the style of their execution is considered, these Illustrations are offered as the cheapest that have ever been published; and from which the Proprietors can only hope for remuneration by a very extensive sale. A limited number of Proofs will be taken on Royal 4to.; Price, on Plain Paper, 63.; India, 7s. 6d. ; and India, before the Letters, 10s. 6d. www Booksellers in the Country, desirous of having Prospectuses and Specimens of these elegant Plates to shew to their Friends, &c., will please to apply direct to SMITH, ELDER, & Co. 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