DESCRIPTION OF THE DESIGNS. 



^^Ifwe would open and intend our eye^ 

 We all, like Moses, should espy 

 Ev'n in a bush the radiant Deity ; 

 But we despise these His inferior ways. 

 Though 710 less full of miracles aitd praiseP 



COWPER. 



jgEFORE proceeding to describe the Plates, it will 

 perhaps be well to offer a few general remarks on the 

 materials of which they are formed. The foundation of 

 a design, /. e,^ its general outline, upon which the 

 variety of colour or material must be placed, is the 

 first thing to be thought of 



This may either be wood, perforated zinc, or a 

 material technically called in the paper trade brown 



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