Excerpt from Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833: With Nineteen Beautifully Finished Engravings, From Drawings by the First Artists I feel it almost an impertinence to speak of the beautiful embellishments of the present Work: the novelty of the design, the taste and Splendour of the execution, may well be left to plead their own cause and I am selfish enough to trust that their merits may, in some measure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.