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King: Gems or Decorative Stones

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PREFÂCE.
IX
the Blacas Gems recently added to the department of our National Collection under his care. The long-established celebrity, and the importance of this Cabinet, the public interest which it has so strongly, and to an unlooked for degree, excited since its happy acquisition by ourselves, and what is more to the present purpose, the skilful and judicious measures which have been taken to render these treasures really " puhlici juris," and to give all interested in ancient Glyptics the power of studying them with facility and pleasure, are considerations which have in­duced me to quote from it in illustration of my remarks as largely as the advanced stage of the printing would allow. So rich is the collection in examples of the finest quality of the productions on which I treat, that infinitely more information of the highest value might have been derived from its contents had they been accessible to me at an earlier period of my undertaking.
C. W. King.
Trinity College,
April 29th, 1867.
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