Part 8 (1/2)
I shall publish a POPULAR EDITION of the history, with portraits printed from transfers, and bound in cloth. Price. $7.50
The next will be the LIBRARY EDITION, royal octavo, printed on good fair paper, good plates, and substantially bound in sheep. $12.00
The same size printed on fine paper. Proof Portraits--bound in half morocco, beveled boards. $17.50
A FINE EDITION on tinted paper. Proof Portraits. Full morocco, gilt, beveled boards, gilt edges. $25.00
A LARGE PAPER EDITION (limited) will be printed from new type, and the original wood-cuts in the best style of modern hand-press work, on heavy toned paper, with the finest INDIA PROOF PORTRAITS. In Sheets, st.i.tched, uncut, $100.00
Elaborately bound. Full levant morocco, gilt. $125.00
I have now devoted five years and a half to collecting material for the history of the Battle of Gettysburg, but until quite recently I have felt unwilling to commence to write, knowing that other matter existed which it was important for me to have, and which, when obtained, might make a material change in the account. This reason no longer exists, though I shall still thankfully receive suggestions from any partic.i.p.ant in the battle.
Within another year the Government will have completed the Topographical Map of the field, by which time I hope to be ready to publish my work.
As a publisher I would have done so long ago, but as a historian not until I feel that I have written the truth--the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
PAINTINGS OF THE BATTLE.
I have also in progress, the finest Collection of Oil Paintings executed of any battle in this country. The whole to be known as
”THE GETTYSBURG ART GALLERY.”
[Ill.u.s.tration: REPULSE OF LONGSTREET'S CHARGE.]
I have divided the Battle into a series of episodes, beginning with its commencement and continuing to its close, each to embrace such movements and operations as of themselves form a complete unit. Of each, I make an accurate historical design, which design I place in the hands of some eminent battle-scene painter, who will be responsible for the artistic rendering of the subject. Each painting is to be 7 4 ft., and when completed, will be exhibited in the places where the regiments represented in it were raised. The whole, together, will form a most complete and graphic representation of the Battle from its commencement to the close. Each of these paintings will be engraved on steel, and hereafter engravings may be had representing actual scenes, which, having been designed under the personal direction of the partic.i.p.ants themselves, will possess the merit of historical truth.
It must not be understood that this whole work is to be put in hand at once. It will be taken up in detail, and continued as rapidly as I have time and means to attend to it. I shall be happy to correspond with those interested in any portion of the Battle. When convenient, it will be better to call a meeting, at Gettysburg, of the officers of the command to be represented, before commencing a painting, that all the details may be properly arranged. I have already made a design, representing the ”charge” of the 6th Wisconsin, 95th N. Y., and 14th N.
Y. S. M., on the first day, resulting in the capture of the 2d Mississippi Regiment, which is now being painted by Alonzo Chappel, Esq., the eminent historical painter. I have recently met, at Gettysburg, the officers of the 3d Division, 1st Army Corps, and under their direction completed a design of their engagement on the afternoon of the first day, which will also embrace the movements of the 1st Brigade, 1st Division. This picture is now being painted by the distinguished battle-scene painter, James Walker, Esq.
Fine Steel Engravings will be published from these paintings. Size (engraved surface), 12 21 in.
PRICES:
Prints, $5.00; Plain Proofs, $10.00; India Proofs, $15.00; Artist's Proofs, $25.00.
[Ill.u.s.tration: DEATH OF MAJOR FERRY, 5^th MICH. CAV'Y.]
Mr. Walker has just completed for me, his graphic representation of
THE REPULSE OF LONGSTREET'S CHARGE,