Excerpt from Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. 4: Division I, Political and Personal Satires, A. D. 1761 to C. A. D. 1770Edward Hawkins, Keeper of the Antiquities in the British Museum, in reference to his own large gathering of satirical prints.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.