Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Introduction to the Study Collection, Vol. 1
On submitting a second edition of his work to the public, the author expresses the hope that its appearance in two volumes instead of as one volume, will meet with approval. It had attained before probably the limits of convenient use, but had it not the addition of the new matter in the present issue would surely have made its employment as a single volume of seven hundred pages incommodious to a reader.
As contributing to the augmentation referred to, the changes, etc., which the articles on Durer, Jacopo di Barbarj, Leonardo da Vinci, Van Dyck, Claude, Ostade, Ribera, Faithorne junior and others of the English School of Engraving have undergone, may be particularly instanced. To the fame end the notices also of Ludwig Krug, Dirk van Staren, Zeeman, Bakhuizen, Thomas of Ypres, and of Le Blon and his followers have assisted.
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