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Transcriber's Note:
The book cover was created by the transcriber (using elements from the Title Page) and placed in the Public Domain.
Missing or damaged punctuation has been repaired.
Both hyphenated and un-hyphenated variants of some words appear in this book. All have been retained. The author has used UK-English variants of some words (e.g. 'colour', etc., not 'color', etc.), and some older spellings.
All Illustrations that interrupted paragraphs have been moved to more convenient positions nearby, between paragraphs, and closer to their descriptive text. The page numbers in the TOC have been adjusted accordingly.
The text in the Omar Khayyám illustrations appears to be missing some end-punctuation, or it is partially hidden by the design. It seems to have been a hand-written copy, by the author (William Morris), of the Fitzgerald translation of Omar Khayyám. As it is hand-written, it has not been amended to the Fitzgerald translation.
Page 25 and Index: 'Wentworth Buller' is mentioned on Page 25; 'Bullen, Wentworth, 25.' is the entry in the Index. The transcriber cannot find which spelling is correct, so both have been retained.
Page 54: 'Hebblewhite' corrected to 'Hepplewhite'.
"... and Chippendale, Sheraton, and Hepplewhite...."
Page 72: 'For in spite the immense activity and industry, the independent artists in design and handicraft were but few,...'
should probably read either:
'For despite the immense activity and industry,...'
or
'For in spite of the immense activity and industry,...'
OED gives:
spite, n. & v.t. 1. ... (in) ~ of, notwithstanding.
So 'in' may be optional, but 'of' seems to be needed. The transcriber has chosen to correct 'in spite' to 'in spite of'.
In other places, the author has used brief notes rather than grammatically correct prose. These appear to have been hasty jottings, and have been retained.
Page 75: 'fatigueing' corrected to 'fatiguing'.
"We have no word-symbols for defining those delicate shades of difference so important to the artist, and to be perpetually qualifying is fatiguing."
Page 78, Footnote 4: 'Cooper' corrected to 'Cowper'. (Reference: Wikipedia)
"... by some of our ablest men of the younger school, such as Mr. Payne and Mr. Cadogan Cowper,...". Index entry is correct.
Page 174: 'droping' corrected to 'dropping'.
"by the use of the brush in floating or dropping on the forms of the ornament."
Page 241: 'intance' corrected to 'instance'.
"... different points of view—for instance, (1) as an accessory...."