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A few words may be proper relative to the work it-
felf: When firft it was inftituted, both engravers, who
knew the expence and value of the plates, and book-
fellers who knew how greatly fuperior it was to periodi-
cal publications in general, fuppofed it was impoiTible
long to fupport a work which offered six plates in each >*
number: and they would have been in the right, had
not a rapid fale enabled the proprietor to accomplifh his
plan. To prove this affertion is eafy. The merit of the
rrontifpieces has been accepted by the public with much
candour ; compared with prints of the fame kind fold
in the print-fhops, they alone exceed the price of each
number. A very common price of a coloured flower
is one Jhilling; but they are never fold under fixpence
each : a circumftance, it is fit mould be known by our
purchafers, that they may juftly efteem our endeavours
to accommodate their wifhes. In fact, we have had
only one letter of complaint during the courfe of thefe
two volumes, and that was from a gentleman who
forgot how heceflary, though difficult, it is to blend
the duke with the utile.
As to the future conduct of the work ; during the
courfe of the fecond fet of lectures, it will be not very
remote from what it has hitherto been, in the letter-
prefs part: the plates will comprize a variety of land-
fcapes, and fubjects connected with the lectures, but not
to the entire exclufion of agreeable compofitions of
figures. We have already given a fpecimen of what it
will be our earneft endeavours to continue, in giving
printg from original drawings, ftudies, &c. of our great
modern
A few words may be proper relative to the work it-
felf: When firft it was inftituted, both engravers, who
knew the expence and value of the plates, and book-
fellers who knew how greatly fuperior it was to periodi-
cal publications in general, fuppofed it was impoiTible
long to fupport a work which offered six plates in each >*
number: and they would have been in the right, had
not a rapid fale enabled the proprietor to accomplifh his
plan. To prove this affertion is eafy. The merit of the
rrontifpieces has been accepted by the public with much
candour ; compared with prints of the fame kind fold
in the print-fhops, they alone exceed the price of each
number. A very common price of a coloured flower
is one Jhilling; but they are never fold under fixpence
each : a circumftance, it is fit mould be known by our
purchafers, that they may juftly efteem our endeavours
to accommodate their wifhes. In fact, we have had
only one letter of complaint during the courfe of thefe
two volumes, and that was from a gentleman who
forgot how heceflary, though difficult, it is to blend
the duke with the utile.
As to the future conduct of the work ; during the
courfe of the fecond fet of lectures, it will be not very
remote from what it has hitherto been, in the letter-
prefs part: the plates will comprize a variety of land-
fcapes, and fubjects connected with the lectures, but not
to the entire exclufion of agreeable compofitions of
figures. We have already given a fpecimen of what it
will be our earneft endeavours to continue, in giving
printg from original drawings, ftudies, &c. of our great
modern