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INTRODUCTION.
too narrow. With the explanation of fifteen new
plates, the letter-press has expanded to near seven
hundred pages.
Where the artist has been made a victim to
poetical or political prejudice, without meaning to
be his panegyrist, I have endeavoured to rescue
his memory from unmerited obloquy. Where his
works have been misconceived, or misrepresented,
I have attempted the true reading. In my essay
at an illustration of the prints, with a description
of what I conceive the comic and moral tendency
of each, there is the best information I could pro-
cure, concerning the relative circumstances, occa-
sionally interspersed with such desultory conver-
sation as occurred in turning over a volume of his
prints. Though the notes may not always have
an immediate relation to the engravings, I hope
they will seldom be found wholly unconnected
with the subjects.
Such mottos as were engraved on the plates,
are inserted; but where a print has been published
without inscription, I have selected or written
one. Errors in either parody or verse, with the
signature E, the writer submits to that tribunal,
from whose candour he hopes pardon for every
mistake, or inaccuracy, which may be found in
these volumes.
too narrow. With the explanation of fifteen new
plates, the letter-press has expanded to near seven
hundred pages.
Where the artist has been made a victim to
poetical or political prejudice, without meaning to
be his panegyrist, I have endeavoured to rescue
his memory from unmerited obloquy. Where his
works have been misconceived, or misrepresented,
I have attempted the true reading. In my essay
at an illustration of the prints, with a description
of what I conceive the comic and moral tendency
of each, there is the best information I could pro-
cure, concerning the relative circumstances, occa-
sionally interspersed with such desultory conver-
sation as occurred in turning over a volume of his
prints. Though the notes may not always have
an immediate relation to the engravings, I hope
they will seldom be found wholly unconnected
with the subjects.
Such mottos as were engraved on the plates,
are inserted; but where a print has been published
without inscription, I have selected or written
one. Errors in either parody or verse, with the
signature E, the writer submits to that tribunal,
from whose candour he hopes pardon for every
mistake, or inaccuracy, which may be found in
these volumes.