Excerpt from The Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the Fifteenth Century: In Three Parts; I. History of the Woodcutters; II. Catalogue of the Woodcuts; III. List of the Books Containing Woodcuts<br><br>IN order to explain with clearness and brevity the origin and scope of this book, and at the same time duly to acknowledge the help generously given by so many towards the work, of which the results are here compressed together, I intend to write in this place a short account of the various stages of my investigations upon the Woodcutters of the Netherlands.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.