purveyances

Updated: June 27, 2025

In truth the illustrator, whether green-eyed or not, being a monster that doth make the meat he feeds on, is apt to become excited with his work, and to go on ever widening the circle of his purveyances, and opening new avenues toward the raw material on which he works.

John Hill Burton - The Book-Hunter: A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author