Show an book an idea of the extent tol to which v private illustrating may run la Is aff afforded corded by mr tredwell of brooklyn in a few detail details from his own experience thirty years ago he be began the illustration of dr henry IL stiles Ili history story of the city of brooklyn 11 and this work Is not yet concluded he lie haa has added to dr stiles original work 2 2300 aw pages mostly portraits port ralta and prints of 0 historic landmarks the original three volumes have been extended to nine and an d the cost so far haa has been something like 2000 ant it Is not to bo be understood that the illustrators whole attention has been given to this particular work in the thirty years he lie has illustrated sixty different works or about volumes and he has upward of books in his library which have more or less undergone this process of mutilation mr tredwell describes how the scope of 0 a contemplated illustration may grow under the temptations afforded in the print sellers shops starting out to buy a portrait of washington irving to paste in a sketch 0 of f the life of that tha t author he be found himself presently with twenty seven engraved portraits representing irving at t different periods of his life from sixteen to to sixty still an interval and lie was p possessed as of portraits of irvings relations a and nd literary friends cuts of the irving birthplace and library and so on seventy five all told which had been obtained at a total expense of twenty five dollars then came the dorkof work of the inlay inlayer erthe the professional gen gentleman aleman who makes prints fit into books as though they had grown there still further increasing the cost new york sun |