Stuarts

PREFACE
HIS new edition of "The Stuarts" is issued at the suggestion
of several friends who have represented that the expensive
form in which the book originally appeared, viz. in two volumes
folio, with 228 illustrations, debarred many from purchasing it.
The work has been carefully revised, and contains the whole of the
letter-press of the first edition, except references to certain plates which are
omitted ; and the Appendices, one of which latter, namely, a list of portraits
of Mary Stuart, has been treated of by me in a separate volume, lately
published, and styled, "Concerning the True Portraiture of Mary Stuart,"
to which those of my readers who desire fuller information on that fascinating
subject are referred.
It only remains for me to express once more my indebtedness to the
owners of the original pictures selected as illustrative of the text. The
high quality and authenticity of the works, so generously placed at my
disposal, lend value to the book, whilst the charm of these examples of
contemporary Stuart Art speaks for itself.
J. J. FOSTER.
October, 1907.