Excerpt from Descriptive and Biographical Catalogue of the Works of Art Belonging to the Corporation of London: Arranged Chronologically as Acquired by the Corporation, Also Showing How Each Work Has Been Acquired, Its Size and Its Present Location Until about the middle of the seventeenth century the Corporation of London had not associated itself, so far as the records show, in any degree with Art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.