Stones of Venice [introductions]

Excerpt

This volume is the first of a series designed by the Author with the
purpose of placing in the hands of the public, in more serviceable form,
those portions of his earlier works which he thinks deserving of a
permanent place in the system of his general teaching.  They were at
first intended to be accompanied by photographic reductions of the
principal plates in the larger volumes; but this design has been
modified by the Author’s increasing desire to gather his past and
present writings into a consistent body, illustrated by one series of
plates, purchasable in separate parts, and numbered consecutively.  Of
other prefatory matter, once intended,—­apologetic mostly,—­the reader
shall be spared the cumber:  and a clear prospectus issued by the
publisher of the new series of plates, as soon as they are in a state of
forwardness.