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xii INTRODUCTION
possession of the Society so far as architecture is concerned. They comprise the
originals of most of the plates now published, together with many others from Myra
and Telmessus which have not been engraved; there are also a large number of
drawings made by Revett, Bedford, and others for the earlier volumes of the
Antiquities of Ionia and for the Unedited Antiquities of Attica.
It may be remarked here, as showing what serious undertakings the old volumes
of engravings published by the Society were, that each of the pictorial views included
in the present volume cost about ^§120 to redraw and engrave.
In a minute of a meeting of the Society held on 4th April 1875 to promote
the publication of the results of the further missions to Asia Minor, undertaken
for the Society by Mr. Pullan between 1866 and 1869, it was stated that nearly
a£2000 had been spent in the acquisition of the new material, and that a further
sum of a£850 to jglOOO was required for engraving and printing the Fourth Part of
the Antiquities of Ionia.1 It was added: " When it is remembered that up to the
year 1852 the moneys expended by the Society of Dilettanti for the promotion of
Art and Archaeology—and for that alone—amounted to upwards of ^§30,000, this
Society cannot but feel confident that Members will show the same alacrity as
before in furthering the objects, and fostering the renown, of the Society of
Dilettanti."2
The editor of the present volume would like to add the expression of the hope
that the Society may still, in association with other learned bodies, make further
contributions to classical archaeology.
W. R. LETHABY.
1 Published in 1881.
2 Cf. Mr. Lionel Cust's History of the Society of Dilettanti, Reissue of 1914, p. 248*.
possession of the Society so far as architecture is concerned. They comprise the
originals of most of the plates now published, together with many others from Myra
and Telmessus which have not been engraved; there are also a large number of
drawings made by Revett, Bedford, and others for the earlier volumes of the
Antiquities of Ionia and for the Unedited Antiquities of Attica.
It may be remarked here, as showing what serious undertakings the old volumes
of engravings published by the Society were, that each of the pictorial views included
in the present volume cost about ^§120 to redraw and engrave.
In a minute of a meeting of the Society held on 4th April 1875 to promote
the publication of the results of the further missions to Asia Minor, undertaken
for the Society by Mr. Pullan between 1866 and 1869, it was stated that nearly
a£2000 had been spent in the acquisition of the new material, and that a further
sum of a£850 to jglOOO was required for engraving and printing the Fourth Part of
the Antiquities of Ionia.1 It was added: " When it is remembered that up to the
year 1852 the moneys expended by the Society of Dilettanti for the promotion of
Art and Archaeology—and for that alone—amounted to upwards of ^§30,000, this
Society cannot but feel confident that Members will show the same alacrity as
before in furthering the objects, and fostering the renown, of the Society of
Dilettanti."2
The editor of the present volume would like to add the expression of the hope
that the Society may still, in association with other learned bodies, make further
contributions to classical archaeology.
W. R. LETHABY.
1 Published in 1881.
2 Cf. Mr. Lionel Cust's History of the Society of Dilettanti, Reissue of 1914, p. 248*.