Excerpt from Catalogue of the Soulages Collection: Being a Descriptive Inventory of a Collection of Works of Decorative Art, Formerly in the Possession of M. Jules Soulages of Toulouse<br><br>During this time, offers from various collectors to purchafe feparate objects were both numerous and tempting, but M. Soulages uniformly refitted all inducements to difmember his Collection, ultimately refolving to difpofe of it as a whole; but pending thefe negotiations, however, he was not ignorant of the extraordinary increafe in value of the clafs of works in his poli'efiion, and it is no reproach to him to (late, that he has in confequence progrefiively augmented the price at which he was willing to part with his Collection. M. Soulages has now obtained the fair price of the day for his property, and lhould the Collection, contrary to the wilh of its purchafers, unfortunately be difperfed, they feel confident that its {ale in detail will afford an entire verification of the afl'ertions already made, refpecting the rapidly increafing value of works of Art in general.<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.