p. 49. For the coinage of the British Islands see the works of Ruding, Hawkins, and Lindsay, also for the Saxon coins found in great numbers in Scandinavia, Hildebrand and Schröder. Humphreys’ popular work on the coinage of the British Empire, so far as the plates are concerned, is useful, but the author is deficient in scholarship.
p. 52. For the statements here made on oil-painting see Bryan’s Dict. of Painters and Engravers, by Stanley, (London, 1849), under Van Eyck, and Sir C. L. Eastlake’s Materials for a History of Oil-painting. (London 1847.)
p. 53. For medieval brasses, see
Bowtell, Monumental Brasses and Slabs. London, 1847, 8vo.
——— Monumental Brasses of England, a Series of engravings in wood. London, 1849.
Haines, Manual of Monumental Brasses. 2 parts. London, 1861, 8vo. This contains also a list of all the brasses known to him as existing in the British Isles. Mr Way has given an account of foreign sepulchral brasses in Archæol. Journ., Vol. VII.
p. 56. Several English frescoes are described and figured in the Journal of the Archæological Association, passim.
p. 62, l. 13. The omission of ancient costume has been pointed out to me. The actually existing specimens however are mostly very late; with the exception of a few articles of dress found in Danish sepulchres of the bronze period, or in Irish peat bogs of uncertain date, the episcopal vestments of Becket now preserved at Sens are the earliest which occur to my recollection; and there are few articles of dress, I believe, so early as these. However both ancient and medieval costume is well known from the representations on monuments of various kinds. See inter alia Hope’s Costume of the Ancients; Becker’s Gallus and Charicles; Strutt’s Dress of the English People, edited by Planché, (Lond. 1842); Shaw’s Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages.
p. 67. The statement about Patin is made on the authority of a note in Warton’s edition of Pope’s Works, Vol. III. p. 306. (London 1797.)
p. 68. The remark about the crab was made to me by the late Mr Burgon, and I do not know whether it has ever been printed; its truth seems pretty certain. For the Rhodian symbol see my paper in the Numismatic Chronicle for 1864, pp. 1-6.