Ruskin; Rossetti; Preraphaelitism: Papers 1854 to 1862 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Ruskin; Rossetti; Preraphaelitism: Papers 1854 to 1862In the book which I published in 1895 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his Family-Letters, with a Memoir - the last paragraph of the Preface contains the following words: - "In case the present book should find favour with the public, I should be disposed to rummage among my ample stock of materials, and produce a number of details relating not only to my brother, but also to other members or connections of the family."That book did find moderate favour with the public, and some favour, as well as recently not a little disfavour, with critics in the press, who seem to consider that, if I had been less candid, and had painted the portrait of my brother with more varnish upon it, I should have been a less incompetent and more laudable biographer. That is not my own opinion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.