Transcriber’s Note
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of correctionsis found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling andhyphenation have been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelledand hyphenated words is found at the end of the text.
Text printed in a black-letter typeface in the original has been renderedin bold in this text.
RAMBLES OF AN ARCHÆOLOGIST
AMONG OLD BOOKS AND IN OLD PLACES:
BEING
Papers on Art,
IN RELATION TO
Archæology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture.
By FREDERICK WILLIAM FAIRHOLT, F.S.A.,
AUTHOR OF “DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ART,” ETC.
Illustrated with Two Hundred and Fifty-nine Wood Engravings.
LONDON:
VIRTUE AND CO., 26, IVY LANE,
PATERNOSTER ROW.
1871.
EDITORIAL NOTE.
The following Papers originally appeared in the Art-Journal, for whichthey were specially written. They are from the pen of that painstakingand accurate archæologist, the late F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A. Theillustrations also were engraved from original sketches by the Author.It has been suggested that the results of so much labour and researchshould be still further utilised; and that the merit and value of theseEssays entitle them to a more lasting form than is afforded by the pagesof a magazine. The Editor confidently believes that the popular style inwhich these articles are written, and the fund of anecdote and curiousinformation they contain, will render them acceptable to a large numberof general readers.
A second series of Art-papers, by the same Author, is in the press, andwill shortly be published, under the title of “Homes, Haunts, and Worksof Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, and Cuyp; and of the DutchGenre-Painters.”
January, 1871.
CONTENTS.
RAMBLES OF AN ARCHÆOLOGIST AMONG OLD BOOKS AND IN OLD PLACES.