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- ↑ The Print Connoisseur: A Quarterly Magazine for the Print Collector AbeBooks. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
- ↑ Copies of Vol 7 #1 were issued with either bright green illustrations or olive green illustrations; copies of Vol 7 #3 were issued with either red illustrations or black illustrations.
- ↑ e.g. advertisement at the back of 1922 Vol. 2, No. 4 advising that a bound Volume 2 could be purchased from the publisher for $7.50 and a bound Vol 1 could be purchased for $10.00.
- ↑ Jackson, Jeffrey B. and Yoram Meroz, eds. The Print Connoisseur: Complete Index, 1920-1932. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2006.
