The Quarterly Illustrator

NY: Harry C. Jones, 1895. Hardcover. VG. Leather and cloth in 5 volumes. A complete run of this periodical in five volumes. The first volume in in 3/4 brown leather, and is titled "The Years Art", as recorded in The Quarterly Illustrator; 328 pp. Volume 2 is in 3/4 dark leather; 456 pp. Vol. 3 in original publishers green cloth; 384 pp. Volume 4 is in original publishers green cloth; 384 pp. Volume 5 is in original publishers green cloth; 368 pp. The final three volume are titled "The Monthly Illustrator." Mott says:"Harry C. Jones began the Quarterly Illustrator in NY in 1893 to review the illustration of the country's periodicals in each number. It was itself copiously illustrated by pictures from other magazines; and it's quarterly reviews by other art critics-Perriton Maxwell, F. Hopkinson Smith, Henry Martin, Charles DeKay and others-as well as it's biographical sketches of artists and little histories of the magazines, were excellent. A Photographic Appendix was added in in 1894. In 1894, a change was made to monthly publication: The monthly illustrator had more variety-a serial story by George Parsons Lathrop, a condensation of Les Miserables in order to use the famous illustrations, and so on. Amoung contributors were John Gilmor Speed, Royal Cortissoz, Julian Hawthorne, and Richard Harding Davis. In Oct., 1895, Home and Country magazine was absorbed and it's name added to the title of The Monthly Illustrator...but the magazine lost it's special position as a critic of the arts-it's many departments gave it variety, but not distinction. This hybrid publication ceased in May, 1897. (Inventory #: 2229)