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LEGENDS OF THE ANGELS AND ARCHANGELS, THE EVANGELISTS,

THE APOSTLES, THE DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH,

AND ST. MARY MAGDALENE,

AS

REPRESENTED IN THE FINE ARTS.

BODL

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS.

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Preface to the Third Edition.

THE Author ventures to hope that, on comparing this Third Edition of "Sacred and Legendary Art" with the two preceding, it will be found greatly improved, and rendered more worthy of the kind approbation and sympathy with which it has been received. The whole has been carefully revised; the references to the pictures and other works of Art corrected from the latest authorities, and many new examples have been added. All the Illustrations, which were formerly etched on copper have been newly etched on steel; two have been omitted, and three others, as more interesting and appropriate, have been substituted; and twelve new woodcuts have been introduced. In a work so multifarious in its nature, and comprising so many hundred subjects and references, there may remain some errors and omissions, but they have not occurred from want of care; and I must not omit to express due thanks for the observations and corrections which have been forwarded to me from time to time, and which have been in this Edition carefully attended to.

A. J.

January, 1857.

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