PAUL KLINCKSIECK. 



PAUL KLINCKSIECK. 



It is only just, I think, to accord to Monsieur Paul Klincksieck 

 due credit for the part he played in the production of Boudier's plates. 

 Monsieur Boudier told me before the plates were issued that he had 

 little hope of seeing them published, for to issue them in the manner 

 they merited would involve an expense that he feared would be pro- 

 hibitive. Monsieur Klincksieck was a man of intense nervous energy, 

 and he had the courage to undertake the production of this, a work 

 that would have appalled most publishers. When the publication of 

 these plates was announced, I doubted if they would be published in 

 the manner that such work deserved, but happily my misgivings were 

 not fulfilled. Monsieur Klincksieck spared neither expense, labor, nor 

 care in producing these plates, exhausting the possibilities of the highest 

 lithographic art. As with Monsieur Boudier the creation of these 

 plates has been a labor of love, so with Monsieur Klincksieck their 

 issue was a matter of pride as a publisher. It is indeed unfortunate 

 that he could not have lived to see the completion of the work. 



From a monetary point of view, and Monsieur Klincksieck's chief 

 interest lay naturally in this direction, Boudier's plates were not a 



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