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lication ever produced, appeared in the year 1498, and Andrea Mantegna, the first truly great engraver south of the Alps, died in the year 1506. It would have seemed fitting, therefore, that in the picture of the world's progress since the discovery of America which the Columbian Exposition was to present to its visitors, the history of the multiplying arts should have been illustrated quite fully. The limitations of means and space, however, made such an illustration impossible, and the result was an exhibition which commanded no attention, and, indeed, hardly deserved any. 
An adequate presentation of the subject being out of the question, the attempt was made to show the beginnings of the more important processes used in the production of printable pictures, and to contrast these with the latest achievements of the same processes, in the