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A Publisher and His Friends

CHAPTER XXI
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I dare say these plates could now be bought cheap, and retouched from the originals, which would make them better than ever they were.

Lady Vere (sister of Lady Temple, which latter is engraved in Park's edition of the "Noble Authors") was a lively writer, and is much distinguished in this correspondence.

Of the men, I should propose Lord Peterborough, whose portraits are little known; Lord Liverpool has one of him, not, however, very characteristic.

Mr.Pulteney is also little known, but he has been lately re-published in the Kit-cat Club.

Of _our Horace_ there is not a decent engraving anywhere.


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