List of Illustrations In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers] clicking on the image will bring up a larger version. The restoration of the Vescica Piscis is taken from a print in the British Museum, dated Printed by R. Clark , Edinburgh. Only half of the following Lectures were delivered by me, as the Professor of Architecture , at the Royal Academy.
The first seven were delivered while Professor Cockerell held the Chair; but, owing to his infirm state of health, I being then an Associate, was, in conjunction with Mr. Smirke, called in to relieve him of this duty. The eighth and ninth Lectures were prepared six years later, after Mr. Smirke had retired, and those which follow, when I had succeeded him in the Professorship.
The Lectures are naturally somewhat disconnected; and having been written both at various times and for audiences often changing, may be found in some instances to repeat the same facts and ideas, for which, as well as for too great a prolixity of style, I beg to apologise. They were written with much zeal; and, thanks to my staff, and to my pupils, my sons, and others, they were magnificently and profusely illustrated; more so, perhaps, than any such Lectures had ever been before.
Murray has most kindly undertaken to do this for me. In correcting them for the press, I have made only verbal alterations, or corrected accidental errors, or omitted a few harsh expressions. Where I wished to amplify, I have done so by notes.
The illustrations have been mainly drawn by my friend and assistant, Mr. Weatherley, chiefly from those exhibited when the Lectures were delivered, with additions from my more recent sketches, and will be found to contribute largely to the elucidation of the text. At the time of the sudden and deplorable death of Sir Gilbert Scott in March last, more than illustrations had been made and engraved.
