Excerpt from Dresden 1: The Royal Picture GalleryMy friend, Martin W. Sampson, sometime Professor of English in Indiana University, has had the uncommon goodness to take off my hands the task of translating the book from the original German. Few will appreciate the greatness of the obligation he has put me under, for to translate a compact art booklet of this kind is far more difficult than people think.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.