8. Enlarged detail of Hogarth’s “Enthusiasm Delineated” . . . 85 9. The Chandelier in “Enthusiasm” . . . 95 The Chandelier in “Credulity” . . . 95 10. The Man of Taste . . . 105 11. Burlington Gate as it appeared prior to 1868 . . . 109 12. Don Quixote, No. 1.—The Innkeeper . . . 115 13. Don Quixote, No. 2.—The Funeral of Chrysostom . . . 117 14. Don Quixote, No. 3.—The Innkeeper’s Wife and Daughter . . . 119 15. Don Quixote, No. 4.—Don Quixote seizes the Barber’s Basin . . . 120 16. Don Quixote, No. 5.—Don Quixote releases the Galley Slaves . . . 122 17. Don Quixote, No. 6.—The First Interview . . . 123 18. Don Quixote, No. 7.—The Curate and the Barber . . . 125 19. Danaë in the Brazen Chamber . . . 143 20. Suppressed Illustration from _The Vicar of Wakefield_ . . . 172 21. Het beest van Babel, etc. (_The plate in its first state_) . . . 218 22. Het beest van Babel, etc. (_The plate in its second state_) . . . 219 23. Aan der Meester Tonge-Slyper. (_The plate in its first state_) . . . 229 Aan der Meester Tonge-Slyper. (_As adapted by the Anti-Jesuits_) . . . 229 24. The Stature of a Great Man, or the English Colossus . . . 234 25. The Stature of a Great Man, or the Scotch Colossus . . . 235 26. Aan den Experten Hollandschen Hoofd-Smith. (_The plate in its first state_) . . . 245 27. Aan den Experten Hollandschen Hoofd-Smith. (_As adapted by the Anti-Jesuits_) . . . 245 28. An adapted Copperplate. (_First state_) . . . 247 29. An adapted Copperplate. (_Second state_) . . . 247 30. A History of the New Plot. (_First state_) . . . 249 31. A History of the New Plot. (_Second state_) . . . 249 SUPPRESSED PLATES, ETC. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY No one who has the itch for book-collecting will deny that suppressed book illustrations are, what the forbidden fruit was to our mother Eve, irresistible. Whether such appetite represents the very proper ambition to have at his elbow the earliest states of beautiful or interesting books, of which the subsequently suppressed plate or wood engraving is in general a sort of guarantee, or the less defensible desire to possess what our neighbour does not, must be settled by the conscience of each. The fact remains that such rarities are peculiarly alluring to those whom Wotton calls “the lickerish chapmen of all such ware.” {2}