Edinburgh
JOHN GRANT
1905
PREFATORY NOTE FOR THE EDITION OF 1905
In this New Edition of a book which is supposed to have played some little part in increasing the taste for Print Collecting here in England, the few alterations I have made, in the text, are chiefly verbal ones. I did not want to interfere, more than was absolutely needful, with a piece of writing that, done at one time, possessed, probably, along with all its faults and its deficiencies, some unity.
But it seemed good that certain additions, hardly outside the lines on which the book had been planned—and which the passing of years, more than anything else, had suggested—should be made, and grouped together in a short, separate Chapter—“Postscript: 1905.” That has been accomplished. And this “Postscript” deals very briefly with a few artists, new or not noticed before—deals too with certain changes in money value, as to which no indication can be more than approximate.
It has been necessary to extend, to a small extent, the Bibliography.
And it has been convenient to suppress certain of the Illustrations that appeared in the Original Edition, and to supply others in the place of them.
F. W.
London: September, 1905.