The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (1.1787)

iv. PREFACE.

too flightly over objects ufually fuppofed
of confequence, they are requeued to re-
collect the perfons to whom it is chiefly
addrefled; if, on the other hand, it mould
Fometimes be thought too learned, the
public will excufe this error (if fuch it be)
in a performance, whofe Editor is defirous
of imparting knowledge, and information,
which will certainly prove of advantage
to his readers, and perhaps ultimately to
the arts themfelves.