The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (2.1788)

PREFACE.

EVERY performance which requefls
the attention of the public, ought
to give all requifite information refpect-
ing its object, materials, and plan,
that its purchafers may form their expec-
tations accordingly : left on one hand,
the work fhould feem to promife what is
not meant, or on the other, its readers
fhould blame it for omitting what was
not the Editor's defign to infert.

The Artist's Repository, though
publifhed periodically for the convenience

a of