Excerpt from Wonders of Architecture
The object of the present work is to supply, in as accessible and popular a form as the nature of the subject admits, a connected and comprehensive sketch of the chief architectural achievements of ancient and modern times. To give a history of the art treated of in the following pages, would require much more space than is here devoted to the subject. But whilst this has not been directly attempted, it may be said to be indirectly fulfilled. Commencing with the rudest dawnings of architectural science as exemplified in the Celtic monuments, a carefully compiled and authentic record is given of the most remarkable temples, palaces, columns, towers, cathedrals, bridges, viaducts, churches, and buildings of every description which the genius of man has constructed; and as these are all described in chronological order, according to the eras to which they belong, they form a connected narrative of the development of architecture, in which the history and progress of the art can be authentically traced.
The book has been designed for the edification and amusement of the general reader, and not for the perusal of the professional student.
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