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INTRODUCTION.
Nearly seven years have elapsed since the first part of this work made its ap-
pearance ; and during this period of apprenticeship to one particular branch of an-
tiquities, the author believes that he has acquired some knowledge of his profession
—if this study and pursuit may be so called. At all events he can confidently
assert, that he feels increased and increasing partiality and zeal for the subject.
Every fresh building, number, and volume, brings new associations and additional
pleasures. To gratify his friends and purchasers, he is determined to prosecute the
work with increasing care and unabated solicitude. He has hitherto been amply
rewarded by the popularity it has experienced, and by the flattering approbation it
continues to receive from some of the most judicious antiquaries and architects of
the age. Whilst success is a pleasing reward for the past, it will render the author
anxious and assiduous for the future : for certainly no periodical publication is worthy
of praise, if its conclusion be not superior to the beginning. He is induced to avow
this maxim, in order to counteract, in some degree, the insinuations of petty envy
and malicious falsehood, which have been industriously employed in decrying the
present work. That it has many faults, no one is more ready to allow than the
author ; but it is his wish to profit by experience, to guard against a repetition of
what is injudicious, and avail himself of the advice and suggestions of intelligent
friends and liberal reviewers. To the latter he addresses the following explanation :
The present work is intended to embrace a miscellaneous collection of Views,
Plans, and Details of ancient buildings, from various parts of England, Wales, and
Scotland. They will necessarily be of different ages and classes ; but will " col-
lectively exhibit," conformably to the condition of the original Prospectus, " spe-
cimens of the various styles which prevailed at different eras in the Ecclesiastical,
Castellated, and Domestic Architecture of Great Britain." In no part of that Pro-
spectus, nor in any part of the Work, is it stated that an arrangement of these
specimens will be given in chronological order, or represented merely in geometrical
b. vol. hi.
Nearly seven years have elapsed since the first part of this work made its ap-
pearance ; and during this period of apprenticeship to one particular branch of an-
tiquities, the author believes that he has acquired some knowledge of his profession
—if this study and pursuit may be so called. At all events he can confidently
assert, that he feels increased and increasing partiality and zeal for the subject.
Every fresh building, number, and volume, brings new associations and additional
pleasures. To gratify his friends and purchasers, he is determined to prosecute the
work with increasing care and unabated solicitude. He has hitherto been amply
rewarded by the popularity it has experienced, and by the flattering approbation it
continues to receive from some of the most judicious antiquaries and architects of
the age. Whilst success is a pleasing reward for the past, it will render the author
anxious and assiduous for the future : for certainly no periodical publication is worthy
of praise, if its conclusion be not superior to the beginning. He is induced to avow
this maxim, in order to counteract, in some degree, the insinuations of petty envy
and malicious falsehood, which have been industriously employed in decrying the
present work. That it has many faults, no one is more ready to allow than the
author ; but it is his wish to profit by experience, to guard against a repetition of
what is injudicious, and avail himself of the advice and suggestions of intelligent
friends and liberal reviewers. To the latter he addresses the following explanation :
The present work is intended to embrace a miscellaneous collection of Views,
Plans, and Details of ancient buildings, from various parts of England, Wales, and
Scotland. They will necessarily be of different ages and classes ; but will " col-
lectively exhibit," conformably to the condition of the original Prospectus, " spe-
cimens of the various styles which prevailed at different eras in the Ecclesiastical,
Castellated, and Domestic Architecture of Great Britain." In no part of that Pro-
spectus, nor in any part of the Work, is it stated that an arrangement of these
specimens will be given in chronological order, or represented merely in geometrical
b. vol. hi.