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The only one which can be considered satisfactory is that of which a copy is prefixed to these Volumes. It is from a steel engraving by Frank Croll, taken at Edinburgh from a daguerreotype by Howie in 1850.
DE QUINCEY'S own opinion of it is expressed to me in the amusing letter which was published in _The Instructor_ (New Series, vol. vi. p. 145).