Excerpt from An Historical and Practical Guide to Art Illustration, in Connection With Books, Periodical, and General Decoration In the 17th century, Michael Vandergucht, a Fleming, master of the English engraver, George Vertue, settled in London. Soon after, another en graver of eminence arose in this country, John Faber, the younger, a famous mezzotinto engraver. But they both - especially the latter - found very little to do. Apart from portraits. Faber, in I7 3 5, engraved those portraits of the kit-cat Club, which we sometimes find carefully preserved in the folios of the curious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.