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Lettered on facing page, center: "viii | fondness and partiality would not permit him to be curiously | accurate in adjusting the estimate of profit and loss. If this | edition, therefore, of the NIGHT THOUGHTS be found deficient | in any essential requisite to its perfection, the circumstance must | be imputed to some other cause, than to the oeconomy or the negligence of the editor. | Of the merit of Mr. Blake in those designs which form not | only the ornament of the page, but, in many instances, the il- | lustration of the poem, the editor conceives it to be unnecessary | to speak. To the eyes of the discerning it need not be pointed | out; and while a taste for the arts of design shall continue to | exist, the original conception, and the bold and masterly execu- | tion of this artist cannot be unnoticed or unadmired."; center: "Dec. 22nd. 1796."