Front matter
Reading edition
PORTRAIT OF A PRIVATE IN AN ENGLISH REGIMENT
About the end of the 18th century
In the possession of the Author
The History of Silhouettes
BY E. NEVILL JACKSON
London: THE CONNOISSEUR 1911
All rights reserved Copyright by E. Nevill Jackson in the United States of America, 1911.
Far in and out, above, about, below, ’Tis nothing but a magic shadow show, Play’d in a box whose candle is the sun Round which we phantom figures come and go. Stanza XLVI. Fitzgerald’s translation of the Rubyat of Omar Kayyam.