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A booke of sundry draughtes principaly serving for glasiers: and not impertinent for plasters, and gardiners : besides sundry other professions. Whereunto is annexed the manner how to anniel in glas: and also the true forme of the fornace, and the secretes thereof

Gidde, Walter · 1615 · London : Printed in Shoolane, at the signe of the Faulcon by Walter Dight · 115 pictures

A pattern book of window designs issued by Walter Gidde in London in 1615, printed for glaziers and also offered to plasterers, gardeners and other trades, with an appended account of annealing glass and building the furnace. The plates are upright rectangular panels of interlaced strapwork, circles and quatrefoils in heavy black line with hatched shading, usable as tiling units, borders and lattice grounds.

Windows · Decoration and ornament · Glass painting and staining · Enamel and enameling

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