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Parables of Our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ

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J.E. Millais is one of the founders of the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and the works that one will mostly likely be familiar with or see at a major museum are his beautiful paintings. However, Millais also did commission work for book publishers (black & white illustrations) and The Parables is far and away the most famous of these.

An original edition of this work is worth hundreds of dollars if not much more. Over the years, the work (originally published in 1864) has been reprinted but none of those editions remain in print and so I was very pleased to see it brought back into print.

I find the illustrations that Millais did for the Parables to be very powerful - particularly The Good Samaritan and The Prodigal Son. There are 33 Parables in this work - though only 19 were illustrated by Millais. Regardless, this is a wonderful work, well done, and very much recommended.