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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1816 Excerpt: ...addo suos. Vtimur argenti, radiantis & utimur
auri Munere, cum rerum postulat ordo vices. Omnibus his furias
pictoribus imprecor omnes. Qui bene nec pingunt, nec vigilanter
agunt. haired brush. The colour being poured on a wooden trencher,
and the brush moderately filled with it; the stensil or Patrone was
laid over the print to be coloured, and the brush passed over all
the pierced parts of it, by which means the print was charged with
colour in all those parts. The process was so rapid, that even now
when they speak of dispatch in works of art, in Suabia and other
places where the business of Briefmahler was exercised, they talk
of painting all the twelve apostles at one stroke."' This
expression also manifests that it was not uncommon to have the
twelve apostles, or a number of saints, &c. engraved on one
block, and printed on one sheet; it was also the case with regard
to playing cards, which were converted into books of moral
instruction, as the following instances will manifest. In the
Bibliotheca Universalis of Conrad Gesner, under the article de
ludis, mention is made of cards with sentences from the ancient
poets; of others, with French verses, and with sentences from the
bible in German, as being sold by Wechel at Paris. The beautiful
pack of cards, engraved by Jost Amnion, of which the succeeding
pages afford specimens, is accompanied by moral distichs in Latin
and German, and were published in the form of a small volume in
4to. as well as for the purpose of playing cards. Their moral
intention was apparently to inculcate the advantages of Industry
and Learning over Idleness and Drunkenness. The subjects are for
the most part treated humourously; the four suits are books,
printers balls, wine pots, and drinking cups. We shall give a ...
Joseph Spence (1699 1768) was ordained after graduating from
Oxford, and having made the acquaintance of Alexander Pope, was
helped by him to the professorship of poetry at Oxford, which he
held for ten years from 1728. At the same time (and while holding
the living of Birchanger in Essex) he began the first of several
extended European journeys, accompanying nobility on the Grand
Tour. He had published various literary works before his death in
1768, but left a number of manuscripts to be published at the
discretion of his executors. They decided to take no action, but
these anecdotes of Alexander Pope and his contemporaries came into
the possession of a bookseller called Carpenter, who had them
edited, and published them, prefaced with a life of Spence, in
1820. This is a fascinating compilation of anecdotes, aphorisms and
biographical details about the most famous poet of his age."
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