People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — A Pretty Surprise. [ARTICLE]

A Pretty Surprise.

A beautifully illustrated and charmingly bound edition of Longfellow’s "Evangeline,” recently published, is a pretty surprise for book lovers. It is good type, with 45 illustrations by Rirket Foster and other eminent artists, is printed on very line and heavy paper, gilt edges, remarkably handsome cloth binding, combining the delicate colors, blue and white and silver and gold. No illustrated edition has ever before been published at less cost than $1.50, and that is about what you might "guess” the price of this to be, but it isn’t—it sells for only 10 cents! plus 0 cents for postage, if by mail. This covers pniy about the actual cost of manufacture by the 100.000, the puliijher’s object being, not profit, but tp get a silmpfc of his book making into the hands of the book-loving millions. His publications are riot sold by dealers, but only direct; catalogue, 12fi pages, literary curiosity in its way, Js sent for a two cent stamp, ora 12-page catalogue free. Every home in the land ought to have a copy of this Evangeline, so charmingly beautiful, as a poem, a cqfiecr tion of artistic illustrations, and as a product of book making art. Address. Jons R. Audkn. Publisher, 57 Bose gt,. Npw York,