Excerpt from The Works of Raphael Santi Da Urbino: As Represented in the Raphael Collection in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, Formed by H. R. H. The Prince Consort, 1853-1861, and Completed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria It was evident that if anything like completeness was to be aimed at, the progress must necessarily be slow, and that the first step in such a direction should be to attempt to collect a complete representation of the works executed by each of the great masters during their artistic careers. 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.