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business if so, I shall be obliged to convince him of 

 the impropriety of his conduct he knows per- 

 fectly well how easy it is to make a fac simile of 

 any design in wood & that an impression from 

 any wood cut, can line by line be transferred to a 

 plain block, so that there is no difficulty in cutting 

 the lines so distinctly thus burnished on. If I do 

 not put a stop to this kind of work then I may 

 expect the next move will be to copy the Quad- 

 rupeds Birds & tale pieces & every original design 

 I have done 



I am 



Dr. Sir yours &c 



T. BEWICK 



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