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Excerpt from The Art of Graveing, and Etching: Wherein Is Exprest the True Way of Graueing in Copper; Allso the Manner and Method of That Famous Callot, and Mr. Bosse, in Their Seuerall Ways of Etching An was atter times, as it becomes fub kinodomes knowled e and ptac need no Other witne es to con firm this truth, than the Works of thofe fa mous Mafiers, the sm: fiohzias, Blengnagt, 71011412, Natalit, Pontinss A11d as for Etchin we are obliged to that Renowned Callot, and is Difciple Bafle 5 who hath noc praetifed, but alfo hath been (0 courteous as to difcover in t Tongue; this At: unto his Country men. I have ufed him as an Author in, this Work, yet 1 have not traced him (0 clofely as to make if a meef Tranfla tion 5 but added {omething making ufe of what Ithought neceflary So as (i hope) I am neither fo tedious as to be troublefome, nor {o {hort as to be obfcute. I fhall'not trouble my felf to (peak in the Commendation of this Art, but (to thofe that (may feem to detrae't from it) give me leave. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.