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Expence of a little Pains, procure a noble Colledion 
of genuine Prints or Medals, which may be placed 
in Books, in orderly Series, and moved from one 
Leaf to another at Pleafure, if they are only palled 
down by little Slips of Paper left round the Edges 
for that Purpofe. I flatter myfelf therefore, that the 
Ufefulnefs of this Contrivance will not be flighted, 
on account of its being fo plain and obvious, that 
every Gentleman will wonder himfelf did not hit on 
it j fince Difcoverics that are mod cafy, and, confe- 
quently, may be pradifed by every body, however 
Ample and voidoflnvention they may appear, are really 
in themfelves moll valuable. As a Proof whereof, I 
fhall only inftance one Art (from which this, in 
feme fort, is borrowed) ; I mean the Art of Print- 
ing ; the mod happy Difcovery, that, perhaps, was 
ever made by Man ! yet, feemingly, fo cafy, and 
what the Antients in their Seals approached fo near 
to, that it is extremely furprifing it was not found 
out many Ages before it was. 
Twenty-five Years ago and better, I fit ft, acci- 
dentally, thought on and pradifed the Method here 
deferibed: And though, fince that time, I have taken 
off many Hundreds of Coins and Medals, for myfelf 
and Friends, I have hitherto been fo far from dif- 
ciofing it to any body, that, on the contrary, I have 
endeavoured to conceal it, by prefling the Pidtires 
fiat, that the rifing Parts might give no Hint of fo 
eafy a Contrivance. But, at length, confidering, that 
it may promote the Knowlege of Medals, whereby 
many Fads in Hiflory may be explain'd, that any 
Gentleman may divert himfelf by doing it, and that, 
poflibly, it may prove acceptable to the Curious, I 
