Download or read book A Treatise on the Rise and Progress of Decorated Window Tracery in England (Classic Reprint) written by Edmund Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on the Rise and Progress of Decorated Window Tracery in England One of the prevailing errors Of earlier writers was an anxiety to discover such distinctive marks in different buildings belonging to the same style as should entitle them to separate classification. The imaginary nature Of these distinctions, and the variety and discrepancy Of the Opinions held by different writers upon this point - scarcely two Of them agreeing to use the same nomenclature, to recognize the same distinctions, or to apply the same rules as a test in regard to date - were all circumstances tending to confuse and to distract rather than to fix the attention Of the architectural student. 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.