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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton, 1848-1897 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 23
urteenth century, there is all the distance of historicalfacts and legends. Remembering that the numerous guilds oftailleurs dimages, or sculptors in relief, had in the Middle Agesthe specialty of carving ivories and of placing effigies on tombs,it can be admitted, without much stretch of… … Fig. 2.—St. Christoplier (142J1. on paper or parchment by some kind of pressure. When andwhere was this discovery produced ? We cannot possibly say ;but it is certain that playing cards (Fig. i) were produced bythis means, and that from the year 1423 popular figures werecut in wood, as we know from…
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