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Excerpt from An Essay on Prints
The chief intention of the following work, was to put the elegant amusement of collecting prints on a more rational footing; by giving the unexperienced collector a few principles, and cautions to assist him.
With this view the author thought it necessary to apply the principles of painting to prints: and as his observation are not always new, he hath at least made them concise.
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