Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Evelyn's Sculptura: With the Unpublished Second Part
The literary works which illus trated the contemporary fame of John Evelyn were, with the exception, possibly, of Sylva, or Dircourre of Forert Treer, almost forgotten when the pub lication of his Diary in 1818, reviving an interest in the author, recalled their names at least from final oblivion. More than sixty years had, then elapsed since the publication of the second and last edition (17yy) of Sculptura; and the book was valued as curious by a few antiquaries only, for con taining some scanty references to engravers who ?ourished in the time of the author, and the earliest men tion in print of the art of engraving in mezzotint, together with an account of its origin then generally believed to be authentic.
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