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Excerpt from The Art-Treasures Examiner: A Pictorial, Critical, and Historical Record of the Art-Treasures Exhibition, at Manchester, in 1857; Illustrated by Upwards of 150 Engravings on Wood Thus auspiciously commenced, the work was pressed forward to completion with alacrity and success, under the superintendence of Mr. Young, who was frequently in attendance, and Mr. Dredge, a skilful engineer, who became resident in Manchester on behalf of the contractors. The brickwork was executed by Mr. William Moody the timber supplied by Messrs. Bennett, of Man chester, A little delay was occasioned by two or three accidents, - one attended with fatal con sequences; but, upon the whole, the, casualties have been rather under than_ over the average of those unavoidably incident to all large works of the kind. 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.