the Sunday Magazine is now incorporated, I am, by kind permission, reproducing two illustrations—one after F. Sandys, Until Her Death, and the other, The Withered Flower, which appeared in the pages of these well-known journals, now taking a new lease of life under the present management.
From the pages of the Graphic I am reproducing a specimen of wood engraving by permission of the proprietors, and similarly the same privilege has been accorded to me by Messrs. Cassell & Co. in regard to an illustration which appeared in the Magazine of Art.
To those of my friends who have, over an extended period, generously lent me their aid in prosecuting researches into the technique of engraving and into the byeways of the subject, and have encouraged me and stimulated my labours over a wide area, I tender my grateful acknowledgment of full indebtedness and appreciation.
ARTHUR HAYDEN.
September, 1906.
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
It is with great pleasure that I have to record the continued
success of this volume. This new edition has several corrections
in regard to printer's errors, and on p. 73 the price
of Méryon's L'Abside de Nôtre Dame de Paris in its first
state is corrected to £350. Similarly, on p. 245, the price
of John Raphael Smith's mezzotint of Mrs. Carnac, first
state, is corrected to £950, and a footnote added that a
specimen fetched 1,160 guineas in 1901. The title of one
of Nanteuil's portraits, p. 154, has been altered from Le
