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Excerpt from Sculptura Historico-Technica, or the History and Art of Engraving: Containing, I. The Rise and Progress of Engraving; II. Of Engraving in General; III. Of Engraving, Etching, and Scraping on Copper, as Now Practised; IV. An Idea of a Fine Collection of Prints; V. The Repertorium, or a Collection of Various Marks
The Antients are generally allowed to have excelled in the Art of Painting though very few of their. Works have been handed down to us, as it was imp.
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Angela Slatter is the award-winning author of eight short story collections, including A Feast of Sorrows: Stories, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales. She has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award and five Aurealis Awards. Her short stories have appeared widely, including in annual British, Australian and North American Best Of anthologies, and her work has been translated into Spanish, Russian, Polish, Romanian, and Japanese. Vigil was her first solo novel, and the sequel Corpselight is due out in July 2017. Angela lives in Brisbane, Australia.
