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Excerpt from A History of the Gothic Revival: An Attempt to Show How the Taste for Mediæval Architecture Which Lingered in England During the Two Last Centuries Has Since Been Encouraged and Developed
IF any preface to this book be needed, it should perhaps take the form of an ample apology for the time which has elapsed between its original announcement and its publica tion. During that interval, and in such leisure as more urgent duties left at my disposal, I gradually realised the difficulties of the task which I had undertaken.
It has been said of contemporary history that its events are less easy to ascertain with accuracy than those of past time. For my own part, and in reference to this work, I can testify to the fact that much information which I imagined might be obtained for the asking has cost me more trouble to procure than that which required literary research.
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IF any preface to this book be needed, it should perhaps take the form of an ample apology for the time which has elapsed between its original announcement and its publica tion. During that interval, and in such leisure as more urgent duties left at my disposal, I gradually realised the difficulties of the task which I had undertaken.
It has been said of contemporary history that its events are less easy to ascertain with accuracy than those of past time. For my own part, and in reference to this work, I can testify to the fact that much information which I imagined might be obtained for the asking has cost me more trouble to procure than that which required literary research.
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.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Charles L. Eastlake
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780266864462
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm
Page Count - 515
Paperback
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ISBN - 9781332587070
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
Page Count - 517
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