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their reactions, it was the author's desire to illustrate the work with 

 a number of plates presenting the colors of those most important. 

 Chromo- lithography having proved futile, this object has been in 

 a manner accomplished by supplying a portion of the edition with 

 plates made with the actual substance when possessing stability of color, 

 otherwise the tints have been painted by the hand of her whose name 

 is affixed to the plates, and to whose delicate appreciation of color is 

 due the accuracy of the production. 



w. s. 



BALTIMORE, September, 1884. 



