Cust, Lionel; Colvin, Sidney [Editor]: History of the Society of Dilettanti (London, 1898)

n8 History of the Society of Dilettanti

increased to sixty) copies at fifteen guineas each
for distribution among the members of the Society,
these copies to be printed on paper of a larger
size than those to be issued by Messrs. Payne and
White for sale to the public. A copy was pre-
sented to the King through Mr. F. A. Barnard, the
royal librarian, another to the Prince of Wales
through Colonel MacMahon, and a third to the
British Museum. The expense borne by the Society
amounted therefore merely to the value of the
copies purchased by them; but they retained no
copies for distribution to subsequent members, a
motion being made in April, 1808, by the Earl
of Aberdeen, seconded by Sir H. Englefield, and
carried unanimously, l That no member elected
into the Society after March 21, 1808, shall be
entitled to receive the work now about to be
published,' a rule modified on March 4, 1810, in
favour of Mr. F. Foster and Mr. Wilkins the
architect, the only two members who had been
elected during this interval. The full title of the
book as published was—

Specimens

of

Antient Sculpture,

Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek,

and

Roman :

selected from

Different Collections in Great Britain,

by

The Society of Dilettanti.

Vol. I.

T' ap\ai St oiaOa, km to. kcu,p' e«ret acupm.

London:

Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court,

For T. Payne, Pall Mall • and J. White and Co., Fleet Street.

1809.