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… Yale University, Quarto 646 808 M58 v.1., 1808. Image Detail from the Catalogue of the Most remarkable Collection of Prints ever offered to the public, for Greenwood’s auction sale of 1786’, Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale … as explained by the bookseller and auctioneer Edward Millington in 1689: ‘I have of late made several Sales of Prints, Paintings &c. upon different and more justifiable methods than were before practiced in the City of London, [...] … which raised the profile of collectible goods and collectors alike. 5 . Edward Millington, A Collection of Curious Prints, Paintings, and Limnings, by the Best Masters (London, 1689), folio 1. 6 . Lawrence E. Klein, 'Coffeehouse …
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