Chapter X: Part 6: Albert Durer

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Moved the initial book listings from before the Title Page to between the Colophon and the continuation of the lists. 2. P. 172, changed “Millard Fillmore is not our master, but our master, but our servant” to “Millard Fillmore is not our master, but our servant”. 3. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 4. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 5. Footnotes were re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter. 6. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.