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Bartolo^zi and his Works.
beautifully engraved and exquisitely finished, and at the time of their first publication
impressions were much sought after. A reprint of the work, in which the old plates were
used, with a painfully unsatisfactory introduction by Mr. Thomas Vaughan, was brought
out by the late Duke of Marlborough in 1845 ; but on comparison with the impressions in
the original edition, it is evident that the plates had lost much of their original bloom and
sharpness.
Mr. Quaritch, of Piccadilly, purchased the entire remaining stock of the second
edition, and the copperplates of the Marlborough Gems engraved by Bartolozzi (100
coppers), in July, 1876, at a sale by auction at Christie's, for the sum of £115.
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beautifully engraved and exquisitely finished, and at the time of their first publication
impressions were much sought after. A reprint of the work, in which the old plates were
used, with a painfully unsatisfactory introduction by Mr. Thomas Vaughan, was brought
out by the late Duke of Marlborough in 1845 ; but on comparison with the impressions in
the original edition, it is evident that the plates had lost much of their original bloom and
sharpness.
Mr. Quaritch, of Piccadilly, purchased the entire remaining stock of the second
edition, and the copperplates of the Marlborough Gems engraved by Bartolozzi (100
coppers), in July, 1876, at a sale by auction at Christie's, for the sum of £115.
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44