Fred T. Hodgson · Frederick J. Drake and Co. · leaf 26
Portion of a Ceiling from Teheran, Persia. tice in many an old town, and thus the value of oldair-slaked lime, such as had been written about eighteenhundred years before, was preserved as a secret of thetrade in Italy, whilst the rest of Europe was advocating INTRODUCTORY 25 the exclusive use of… … Diapfkcd Pi aster Ianei i.inc is hie Auiamhra. S\ms, TiiikifenTh Centurv. of the present century, any plaster image seller who wasnot an Italian? Indeed, at this present time, almost 26 CEMENTS AND CONCRETES all the formatore or piece moulders for the majorityof the sculptors of Europe are of…
