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Letters
The collection consists of two handwritten signed letters discussing the Record of zoological literature, begun the previous year and published by Van Voorst. Clark had ordered a copy of vol. 2 (1865). In the first letter, Clark commiserates with Van Voorst on the difficulties of finding subscribers for a new annual publication. Clark suggests that Van Voorst sell the work in parts, to attract buyers interested only in a particular subject or unwilling to pay for the complete contents. In the second letter, after having received the volume, Clark calls it a "capital work" and "important and well conducted," and says "I will mention it to 2 or 3 of my friends." He also comments, "in my own subject I can detect as yet no slips whatever" on the part of the recorders.
Eileey Written in a With Versions in the Greek, Lati and French London
Excerpt from Eileey Written in a With Versions in the Greek, Lati and French London: John Van Voorst, L, Paternoster Row, M DCCCXXXIX The great improvement that has taken place, within a few years, in the art of Engraving on Wood, as well as its general adoption, in some measure superseding the use of Copper and Steel, led to the present attempt to apply this mode of embellishment to a Poem of such general and deserved celebrity, and which appeared to afford the greatest scope for the talents of the artist. The Elegy itself has long been universally acknowledged as one of the most elegant compositions which the English language ever produced. The following testimony to its great merit is not...
Travels and Researches in Crete
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by John van Voorst in London, 1865. This book contains color illustrations.
