buff-coloured cardboard of a beautiful basso-relievo of one of the cartoons of Raphael, from Messrs. Ackerman, the well-known art publishers. These impressions cost me only threepence each, including the material, and I found a ready sale for them at half-a-crown, when taken in wholesale quantities. They must still exist in many families, for hundreds were stamped in leather on the covers of a beautifully got-up quarto edition of the Bible, the cartoon chosen being the one in which Raphael represents Our Saviour giving the keys to St. Peter. I also made a great many dies in this way for bookbinders, cardboard- box manufacturers, etc., thus turning to commercial account the art of "fine-casting," which I had heretofore only practised as an amusement.

A year or so previously, 1831, I made the acquaintance of a Mr. Richard Cull, then a youth about my own age, who, when I last heard of him, had become a noted philologist and a member of the Antiquarian Society. My friend Cull was a great admirer of these beautiful cast dies, and we very nearly entered into a deed of partnership, with the intention of carrying on this business on a greatly extended scale; but for some reason or other this intention was never carried out.