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PREFACE.
publication. At the same time it was decided, with Mrs. Middleton’s
approval, that all the plans and drawings should be revised on the spot by a
competent architect, in order to make such additions and corrections as Dr.
Middleton would doubtless have wished to make himself, had he been able to
give them a final revision. This task was undertaken and carried out by Mr.
T. D. Atkinson, who went out to Athens in April, 1899 ; I was myself also in
Athens at the same time, and so was able to verify and to discuss many of
the drawings on the spot with Mr. Atkinson. We found that some of them
required corrections of detail, which Mr. Atkinson has since carried out. In
a few instances, where the corrections required were so considerable that
the whole would have had to be redrawn, it seemed better to suppress the
drawing altogether, since our object was to prepare Dr. Middleton’s own work
for publication, not to base upon it a new set of drawings and plans.
The materials handed over to me by Mr. Somers Clarke suffice in most
cases to show the sources from which were derived the drawings prepared for
reproduction, and to distinguish what is original in them from what is
repeated from earlier publications. These materials consisted of the
following :
1. The large drawings themselves, from which the plates of the present
publication have been reduced.
2. Sets of references to the letters inserted on most of the plates.
3. Six note-books, containing various notes relating to the subjects to be
treated in the book on Athens. Of these, the most important for our present
purpose are three and a portion of a fourth that contain drawings in pencil,
mostly with the addition of colour, made in Greece in 1890 and 1892. The
subjects are almost entirely architectural or topographical details.
4. Several maps, plans, and drawings, taken from earlier publications, and
covered to a greater or less degree with notes in pencil and colour. It was
evidently Dr. Middleton’s practice, whenever he could manage it, to detach
such published plans or drawings from their surroundings, and to annotate
them on the spot. The earlier works of which he made most use in this way
were Penrose’s Principles of Athenian Architecture (first edition, 1851), and
the old series of the publications of the Greek Archaeological Society,
especially the number containing the report of the Greek official commission
on the state of the Erechtheum.
In my notes on the plates I have indicated their origin, wherever it was
possible, and so have distinguished what is new and original from what
is not.
The references to the plates prepared by Dr. Middleton were practically
the only portion of the text of his book on Athens which he left ready for
publication. Though they would have been amply sufficient for their original
PREFACE.
publication. At the same time it was decided, with Mrs. Middleton’s
approval, that all the plans and drawings should be revised on the spot by a
competent architect, in order to make such additions and corrections as Dr.
Middleton would doubtless have wished to make himself, had he been able to
give them a final revision. This task was undertaken and carried out by Mr.
T. D. Atkinson, who went out to Athens in April, 1899 ; I was myself also in
Athens at the same time, and so was able to verify and to discuss many of
the drawings on the spot with Mr. Atkinson. We found that some of them
required corrections of detail, which Mr. Atkinson has since carried out. In
a few instances, where the corrections required were so considerable that
the whole would have had to be redrawn, it seemed better to suppress the
drawing altogether, since our object was to prepare Dr. Middleton’s own work
for publication, not to base upon it a new set of drawings and plans.
The materials handed over to me by Mr. Somers Clarke suffice in most
cases to show the sources from which were derived the drawings prepared for
reproduction, and to distinguish what is original in them from what is
repeated from earlier publications. These materials consisted of the
following :
1. The large drawings themselves, from which the plates of the present
publication have been reduced.
2. Sets of references to the letters inserted on most of the plates.
3. Six note-books, containing various notes relating to the subjects to be
treated in the book on Athens. Of these, the most important for our present
purpose are three and a portion of a fourth that contain drawings in pencil,
mostly with the addition of colour, made in Greece in 1890 and 1892. The
subjects are almost entirely architectural or topographical details.
4. Several maps, plans, and drawings, taken from earlier publications, and
covered to a greater or less degree with notes in pencil and colour. It was
evidently Dr. Middleton’s practice, whenever he could manage it, to detach
such published plans or drawings from their surroundings, and to annotate
them on the spot. The earlier works of which he made most use in this way
were Penrose’s Principles of Athenian Architecture (first edition, 1851), and
the old series of the publications of the Greek Archaeological Society,
especially the number containing the report of the Greek official commission
on the state of the Erechtheum.
In my notes on the plates I have indicated their origin, wherever it was
possible, and so have distinguished what is new and original from what
is not.
The references to the plates prepared by Dr. Middleton were practically
the only portion of the text of his book on Athens which he left ready for
publication. Though they would have been amply sufficient for their original