Excerpt from A Collection of Exceptional Variety and Quality English and Continental Furniture, Including an Important Louis XVI Suite, Fine Fabrics and Textiles: XV Century Flemish and Italian Paintings, Works by Modern Americans, Persian Miniatures, Sung and Ming Album Paintings, Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Beauties of the Regency, in Colored Chalks I am sure I need not call the attention of your audience to the indi vidual art objects. My predilections are sufficiently well known among many fellow-collectors, who, I am confident, will come to see your exhibition. The rest I leave to the expert judgment of your cataloguers and to your international reputation. 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.