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The new edition embodies a large amount of fresh material gathered at first hand from the monuments. A considerable number of early Gothic buildings of great importance, hitherto little known, have been examined; and much new light has thus been thrown upon the interesting subject of the early Gothic development. A new chapter on the sources of Gothic art has been inserted; the other chapters have been rewritten and much new matter incorporated. The work is thus much improved both as an exposition of the nature and character of Gothic art, and a comparative illustration of the various pointed systems of the Middle Ages.
Many new illustrations in the text, and a considerable number of full-page plates, executed in the best manner of photographic reproduction, will be included.
The Nation _says of the new edition_:
“The treatise has evidently been remade from beginning to end, the old material being retained only so far as it was found to meet entirely the new demands.
“As to the illustrations, they also have been minutely reconsidered, and the improvement in this respect is even more striking than in the text....
“Those who have found the first edition of Mr. Moore’s work valuable will find it still more important to possess the second.”
“We welcome Mr. Moore’s book with unalloyed satisfaction ... as of very great importance and value.... A book so comprehensive, so compact, so clear in statement, and so interesting in the treatment of its great subject is well suited not only to increase the general knowledge of Gothic architecture, but to become a text-book for special students.”—American Architect and Building News.
“It is without question the most noteworthy work upon architecture yet written in America, as well as by one of the foremost contributors to the literature of the subject which has appeared in any country....