Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . ADAM AND CHARLES BLACKSOHO SQUARE • LONDON • MCMXIII li(pz,M5 —>- lOIC /f/3 PREFACE The Cathedral verger, conducting his flock oftourists round the building, while giving themplenty of really interesting and valuable informationabout it (for the verger of to-day is a different manfrom his predecessor, and is often very intelligentand well informed), remarks briefly, The glass is ofthe thirteenth century —or fourteenth or fifteenth,as the case may be; the procession gazes care-lessly at it, and passes on. Yet from out of thatdazzling and
Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . ADAM AND CHARLES BLACKSOHO SQUARE • LONDON • MCMXIII li(pz,M5 —>- lOIC /f/3 PREFACE The Cathedral verger, conducting his flock oftourists round the building, while giving themplenty of really interesting and valuable informationabout it (for the verger of to-day is a different manfrom his predecessor, and is often very intelligentand well informed), remarks briefly, The glass is ofthe thirteenth century —or fourteenth or fifteenth,as the case may be; the procession gazes care-lessly at it, and passes on. Yet from out of thatdazzling and glowing labyrinth of coloured jewelsa past age is speaking far more articulately, if onestops to unravel the message, than ever in stone orwood, and it is for those who can be induced totake that second look which will be followed by athird and a fourth and many more that I havewritten this book. It is impossible in a book of this size to give anadequate review of all the important windows even vi STAINED GLASS within the Umits of place and
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