Excerpt from Some Account of Gothic, Vol. 1: Architecture in Spain Three sorts Of people will read a book like this, of travel and criticism: those who think of going somewhere and want to know what to expect; those who cannot go, and feed their desire by what stirs new desire; and those who have been there already and want to recall the place or to follow up what they fancied there. The greatest motive for reprinting Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, by George Edmund Street, lies in the need of the first sort, for whom very little exists in any language. Murray is Ford first spoiled and then superannuated; Baedeker is for the best part carved out of Street, and for the rest inaccurate as well as inadequate; few travellers' books give more than travellers' prejudices. This book is meant to be, what it has been always, the traveller's inseparable fellow. The editor undertakes two things: first and chiefly to make it valid for the current year, and, secondarily, to widen. A very little, its range. Street and Baedeker the traveller can carry with him, more he cannot carry. Therefore whatever Bae deker omits, Street must supply. I set out to report where things are not as they were, and to add whatever new historical scholarship has brought to light. I have tried to see not only every place that Street saw, but every place that he expressed a wish to see - this sometimes was not possible - and to add in the third place a few notes on places still unseen where Baedeker avails nothing. Whatever I have described without seeing I have described, with infinite regret, from photographs. On books to which Street had access I have drawn little, knowing that he Chose carefully and omitted judiciously. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.