in human nature.
There were 2838 lots of printed books. _The rare old
black-letter books and tracts_, begin at p. 52.]

ALMAN. How so? A very little care, with a tolerably good taste, is
only required to know when a print is _well engraved_.

LYSAND. Alas, Madam! the excellence of engraving is oftentimes but a
_secondary_ consideration!

BELIN. Do pray explain.

LYSAND. I will, and as briefly and perspicuously as possible.

There are, first, _all the varieties of the same print_[437] to be
considered!--whether it have the _name of the character_, or _artist_,
omitted or subjoined: whether the head of the print be without the
body, or the body without the head--and whether this latter be
finished, or in the outline, or ghostly white! Then you must go to
_the dress_ of this supposed portrait:--whether full or plain; court
or country-fashioned: whether it have a hat, or no hat; feather, or no
feather; gloves, or no gloves; sword, or no sword; and many other such
momentous points.

[Footnote 437: The reader, by means of the preceding note,
having been put in possession of some of the principal works
from which information, relating to PRINT-COLLECTING may be
successfully gleaned, it remains for me--who have been
described as sitting in a corner to compile notes for
Lysander's text-discourse--to add something by way of
illustration to the above sweeping satire. One or the other
of the points touched upon in the text will be found here
more particularly elucidated.

CATALOGUE OF BARNARD'S PRINTS; 1798, 8vo.

7th Day's Sale.

NO. 47. Sir Thos. Isham de Lamport, by Loggan and Valck;
_before the names of the artists, very fine_. L5 5_s._ 0_d._

68. King Charles I. on horseback, with the page, by Lombard;
_very fine and scarce_. 1 14 0

69. The same plate; _with Cromwell's head substituted for
the King's--variation in the drapery_. 3 6 0

70. The same: a curious proof--_the face blank and no
inscription at bottom--drapery of the page different_--and
other variations. 1 2 0

90. Catharine, queen of K. Charles II.; _in the dress in
which she arrived: very scarce_. By Faithorne. 4 16 0

97. Queen Elizabeth; habited in the superb court dress in
which she went to St. Paul's to return thanks for the defeat
of the Spanish Armada--by Passe; from a painting of Isaac
Oliver. 6 12