Excerpt from The Arts in Early England, Vol. 1: The Life of Saxon England in Its Relation to the Arts Most of the illustrations to this and the succeeding volume are from drawings executed by my wife with a loving care for which I cannot be sufficiently grateful. Some of the general views of churches are from the pen of Mr. Percy Wadham. 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.