The book of craftsmen; the story of men's handiwork through the ages (1900)
Bruce, Marjory · New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 283
The Worker in Leather She was a Christian, and her chief desire was to lead a solitary and meditative life in a lonely cottage beside a fountain. So Hugh went off on his travels, hoping that strange sights in distant lands might help him to forget her. They did not, and the poor young man returned… … ST WINIFRED AND ST HUGH As a seventeenth-century artist imagined them. Emperor Diocletian issued severe edicts against the Christians in his dominions, and among the hapless victims of Imperial cruelty were both Hugh and Winifred! By a coincidence, which may either have comforted or appalled the…
Decorative arts · Industrial arts
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