Dr sus au livre: il est le grand appas.
Clair est le ciel. Amis, qui veut me suivre
En bouquinant?

A. L.



ILLUSTRATED BOOKS {8}



Modern English book-illustration--to which the present chapter is
restricted -has no long or doubtful history, since to find its first
beginnings, it is needless to go farther back than the last quarter
of the eighteenth century. Not that "illustrated" books of a
certain class were by any means unknown before that period. On the
contrary, for many years previously, literature had boasted its
"sculptures" of be-wigged and be-laurelled "worthies," its
"prospects" and "land-skips," its phenomenal monsters and its
"curious antiques." But, despite the couplet in the "Dunciad"
respecting books where


" . . . the pictures for the page atone,
And Quarles is saved by beauties not his own;" -


illustrations, in which the designer attempted the actual
delineation of scenes or occurrences in the text, were certainly not