nd [wm 1798]

To the Bank

II. Principles

1. Multiplicity

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offender, it results from the improbability that so many distinct branches of

skill shall be united in one and the same hand.

In the framing of a Bank note upon the present plan, the number of concurrent

arts that may thus be stated as distinct is but two, or at most but three – viz:

The art of the Papermaker: 2. The art of the engraver of writing on Copper

plate; (to whom, were it only for the purpose of occasional trial, the art of

the Copper plate Printer can never be altogether strange) to which may or may

not be added, as an art distinct from that of engraving letters, the art of

engraving figures, in respect of the emblematical figure, which presents itself

at the beginning of the writing contained in a Bank Note.

In the framing of a Bank Note upon the plan proposed, the concurrence of the

following additional distinct arts would be rendered necessary, viz:

1. The art of the engraver of portraits on Copper.+

2. The art of the Letter-Founder –

3. The art of the engraver of the punchions for the making of the moulds or

matrixes for the Letters –

4. The art of the maker of the moulds or matrixes.

5. The art of the finisher of the Letters when cast.

6. The art of the Printer who prints the Letterpress.

7. The art of the engraver who engraves that one of the two portraits which is to

be engraved on wood: a branch of engraving so distinct from that of the engraver

on copper that a perfect master of the one, may be very /comparatively/ inexpert

in the other.

8. The art of the Draughtsman who makes the Draughts preparatory to the engraving

of the his[?] portrait.(a)

+ Reference onwards in the margin