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BIBLTA PAUPERUM.
[CHAP. III.
says he, " I place them one after the other, it is only to explain
" the difference between them; for I must candidly confess, that I
" neither know which is the original, nor the epoch of either of the
" five. The engravers have copied each other with such exact-
" ness in preparing these editions" (he speaks here of the four first
editions with forty prints), " that there is very little difference be-
" tween one and the other: but there is some; and those who
" examine them carefully, stroke by stroke, will find several small
" variations ; although the design, and the manner of engraving, are
" the same." Heineken then points out certain marks by which
these different editions are to be distinguished.
" The edition," says he, " which I call the first, is that where
" upon the twenty-first print marked the triangular space, over
" the two pillars that divide the central subject from the two lateral
" ones, is ornamented with a sort of star, thus :
w
" whereas in all the other editions the space has this ornament:
" The first edition moreover differs from the others in another
" respect; the letters Yl 0 Y* C °f tne second alphabet (num-
" bers 33. 34. 37. and 38.) have no points on each side of them,
" whereas in what I term the second and third editions they
" have points."
" The second edition," continues Heineken, " I consider that
" wherein the ornament between the two niches, at the top, in
" the print marked |l ^ (No. 28) is thus:
" and where, in the print „ ^ , (35) the tiara of Moses has two
" horns at the top of it—in this manner :"
BIBLTA PAUPERUM.
[CHAP. III.
says he, " I place them one after the other, it is only to explain
" the difference between them; for I must candidly confess, that I
" neither know which is the original, nor the epoch of either of the
" five. The engravers have copied each other with such exact-
" ness in preparing these editions" (he speaks here of the four first
editions with forty prints), " that there is very little difference be-
" tween one and the other: but there is some; and those who
" examine them carefully, stroke by stroke, will find several small
" variations ; although the design, and the manner of engraving, are
" the same." Heineken then points out certain marks by which
these different editions are to be distinguished.
" The edition," says he, " which I call the first, is that where
" upon the twenty-first print marked the triangular space, over
" the two pillars that divide the central subject from the two lateral
" ones, is ornamented with a sort of star, thus :
w
" whereas in all the other editions the space has this ornament:
" The first edition moreover differs from the others in another
" respect; the letters Yl 0 Y* C °f tne second alphabet (num-
" bers 33. 34. 37. and 38.) have no points on each side of them,
" whereas in what I term the second and third editions they
" have points."
" The second edition," continues Heineken, " I consider that
" wherein the ornament between the two niches, at the top, in
" the print marked |l ^ (No. 28) is thus:
" and where, in the print „ ^ , (35) the tiara of Moses has two
" horns at the top of it—in this manner :"