A Manual of Historic Ornament: treating upon the evolution, tradition, and development of architecture and the applied arts : prepared for the use of students and craftsman (Reprint of Batsford 1933)
Excerpt from A Manual of Historic Ornament: Treating Upon the Evolution, Tradition, and Development of Architecture the Applied Arts The subject of Architecture has received considerable amplification, as additional illustrations are given of the Greek, Romanesque, and Gothic, styles, together with the Italian, French, and English Renas cence, making this branch of the work more comprehensive and useful to the general reader. The section dealing with the applied arts has also been enlarged, additional plates Of Gold and ...
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Excerpt from A Manual of Historic Ornament: Treating Upon the Evolution, Tradition, and Development of Architecture the Applied Arts The subject of Architecture has received considerable amplification, as additional illustrations are given of the Greek, Romanesque, and Gothic, styles, together with the Italian, French, and English Renas cence, making this branch of the work more comprehensive and useful to the general reader. The section dealing with the applied arts has also been enlarged, additional plates Of Gold and Silver, Bronzes, Furniture, Woodcarvings, and Bookbindings being inserted, together with a number of the beau tiful initial letters of the early printed books of the latter part of the isth and the early 16th centuries, illustrating the vitality, inventiveness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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