THE NEW-YORK EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATED.

The silver Centre Dish here engraved, is exhibitedby Mr. Joseph Angell, Strand, London, manufacturerand designer, of silver ware. It is executed in solid

I silver and heavily gilt. The companion piece will be The Chandelier, profusely furnished with prismaticfound on another page. glass pendants, is contributed by Mi. J. T. Hall, England.

In bookbinding, the true purpose of the art—to pro-e et the volume within it—is so often overlooked, orrather, so systematically neglected and set at defiance,la t we are glad to illustrate a contrary instance which i'as our entire approval. This notable exception to the .

general rule is exhibited by Mathews & Rider, of New- Owen Jones s Illustrations of the Alhambra should be— I that the art of bookbindim? is not ,

^"wk. It w in attract attention and praise, but wbe- an< l w 'tbal as modest as rich. This example will show | confess, not often practised mnnnrr> Wn ’ ^ 10U S^>

P her so much as it deserves is doubtful. For there ^ lls -

1 p n ° gb're or tinsel about it, no uncomfortably redsheepskin morocco, with gaudy bronze gilding, thebaser metal outfacing genuine gold; no deceptive stamp-1sd-work, whose endless repetitions of even a pretty pat-te,, n become wearisome, and can never hope to rival theex< l"isite finish of an accomplished "workman. It has In <>ne of. these popular passports to favor, but is a solid,substantial, and honest piece of work throughout, exe-cuted at an expense of time and labor, which the mostj ® Ul ’ readers would think fabulous, and therefore wesay nothing about it. The design is beautiful, ap-propriate and rich—as it is befitting that the cover of !