Note 15 — Chapter X · MRS. ALLINGHAM AND HER CONTEMPORARIES
Reading edition
When will the day come that editions of the books illustrated by Birket Foster will attain to their proper value? The poets illustrated by miserable process blocks find a sale, whilst these volumes, issued in the middle of the last century, and containing the finest specimens of the wood-cutting art, attract, if we may judge by the second-hand book-sellers’ catalogues, no purchasers even at a sum which is a fraction of their original price.