A catalogue of the ... library ... of ... Richard Gough ... : Which will be sold ... on ... April 5, 1810 / [Richard Gough].

  • Richard Gough
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[1810]
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    into a form which furnished materials for the new edi- tion of Caa^den’s Britannia, the result of twenty years excursions. In his tiistory of Croyland he thus adopts the words of Dr. Stukeley * : “ When I was a youth, and began to have an incli- nation to the studies of Antiquities, I visited Crowland Abbey; and now, once at least in the year, iny affairs calling me that way, I visit it with as much pleasure \is Petrus Bieseusis formerly looked iqion it: Ante- quam soUdam terrain terrerem^ in. medio mcirisco sep- ties aut sepias frcrna rejiectens, vest nun sanctisslmuni monasferhnn respiciens, intinio corde henedieensr I make no apology,” adds Mr. (iongh, “for be- ginning the prelace to this work with the words of a great Master in Antiquity, tliough 1 have not had so frequent opportunities of re-visiting a spot whence mv career of Antiquarian ])ursuits literally began 175.6*, and which I reviewed with equal' if not greater plea- sure last summer, having directed my pilgrimage thi- ther once during the intervening 26‘ years. 1 he same desire to do justice to those almost Crc- cian figures that decoi'ate its splendid front, which made me wish to liave sent Mr. P. S. Lam born from CWibridge in 175^, after my first visit, to make draw- ings and engravings of them, when 1 had not interest to procure pecuniary eiu^ouragement I’orsuch an under- taking, suggested the idea of ]irom]iting Mr. John Carter to make a sketch of it when he w^as in those parts the summer before the last. This industrious young man, into whom 1 thought the spirit of \^-rtue was passed by a metempsychosis not unfamiliar to Pro- fessors of Antiquity, executed his commission, and pro- duced what at the distance of near twenty years seemed a very faithful drawing, and deserving to be engraven as the surest mode of preserving these elegant mon eamv-j-. I he choice of tlie drauglitsinan pointed to die burin of * Paleeograplila Britannica, No. II. p. 34. t The original clriuving was purcliased by Mr. Nidiols, who still possesses it. b 2