NOTE.
The present volume is a translation of Les Merveilles de la Gravure, by M. GEORGES DUPLESSIS
which has already appeared in the well-known Series now in course of publication by Messrs.
L. Hachette et Cie. The author has made Engraving and Engravers his special study ;
his chapters on the Italian , Flemish , German, and French schools will , we think,
be considered exhaustive ; and nothing can be clearer than his account of the processes employed:
but he has scarcely done justice to this country – many of our most illustrious names are unnoticed, whilst others are brought into undue prominence.
This omission may, we hope, be rectified by the publication of a separate volume on English Engravers, which is evidently much needed .
The translator need only add an earnest hope that the present version of Les Merveilles de la Gravure may be acceptable to all lovers of this important and deeply interesting branch of Art.