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ADVERTISEMENT.
application, and so much difficulty in selecting proper examples, without
greatly
increasing the number of expensive plates, that I have preferred this mode
of pub-
lishing a Volume of HINTS and SKETCHES; being detached fragments, collected
from
my different works. It never was my intention to publish the whole of any
one red
book; nor to multiply my examples, by referring to a number of different
books, when
a single engraving would answer the purpose: I have therefore availed myself
of the
honour conferred upon me by his Grace the Duke of Portland, in permitting
Me to
use the red book of Welbeck as the ground work of the present volume; though
I shall
occasionally refer to other places, in order to increase the number of examples,
with-
out augmenting the number and expence of plates. Thus an opportunity may
sometimes occur of comparing my observations with the subjects themselves,
or with
the original drawings in different libraries.
It will perhaps be expected, that in this advertisement I should give some
ac-
count of the sequel of this Work, or the number of volumes to which it may
be
extended; but, from the multitude of my private engagements, I have found
so
much trouble and difficulty in preparing this volume for the press, that
I dare
not suggest the period, if ever it should arrive, when I shall produce another.
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