Acknowledgment

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Southern District of New-York, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twelfth day of October, in the
forty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America,
C. S. Van Winkle, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the
title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words
and figures following, to wit:

“The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. No. IV. `I have no
wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other
men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which
methinks are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or
scene.'—Burton.”

In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, “An
“act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps,
“charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during
“the times therein mentioned;” and also, to an act, entitled, “An act
“supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of
“learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the
“authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein men
“tioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts and others prints.” arts of designing, engra
“ving, and etching historical an