The Library of George Gordon King, Vol. 2 of 2: The Prints (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Sizes are given in millimeters, the height invariably being placed first. Unless otherwise expressed, the size includes only the design, and not the plate-mark or the sheet upon which the impression is made. Even in millimeters, however, sizes of prints are only useful aids, and not test standards; as, because of a difference in the shrinkage 'of the paper, such close measurement sometimes shows a variation between two impressions from the same plate. When the design of the plate is round or irregular or does not admit of exact measure ment, the general but indefinite terms folio, quarto, oc tavo, duodecimo, are used to express the size of the sheet, and, sometimes, in a round, or in an oval, to qualify the design.

All names of the engravers and the etchers are given in their original forms. For the birth and the death-dates and for the states of the plates, the most recent standard works have been consulted; but only a partial list is given herewith, and this is limited to works to which references are made in the text of the catalogue.

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