Roberts, David; Croly, George: The Holy Land: Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia (Band 1) (London, 1842)

TO THE

QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,

Madam,

The cultivation of the Fine Arts has been regarded by all civilized nations

as an ornament of the Diadem, but by England in the higher light of an essential
instrument of her intellectual supremacy.

Your Majesty's ancestors, distinguished as they were by the triumphs of fleets
and armies, never lost sight of the milder, but not less permanent lustre, reflected
on the throne and the people by the triumphs of the national mind.

Yet while your Majesty's known taste and royal munificence have already
given new animation to the arts, the present work solicits your approval by higher
claims than mere elegance of design or skill of execution. Illustrative of scenes
once hallowed by the steps of the prophet and the apostle, possessing in all ages
the highest interest for the scholar and the philosopher, and now opening the
most sacred contemplations and most glowing prospects to the philanthropist and
the Christian, these volumes are dedicated to your Majesty, as the Defender
of the Faith of a great Christian empire, by,

Madam,

Your Majesty's most faithful Subject

and dutiful Servant,

FRANCIS GRAHAM MOON.