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 #267403

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.