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Catalogue of a collection of old embroideries of the Greek islands and Turkey (1914)

Burlington Fine Arts Club, Wace, A. J. B. (Alan John Bayard), 1879-1957, Lawrence, William Matthew Trevor, Sir, 3d Bart., 1870- · London, Printed for the Burlington fine arts club · leaf 12

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M. Dawkins, Esq. Guy Dickins, Esq. The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Lady Egerton.#Captain Richard Ford. F. W. Hasluck, Esq. T. E. Hodgkin, Esq. E. G. Howarth, Esq. #Sir William Lawrence, Bart.#Rev. William MacGregor. The Governors of the Manchester Whitworth Institute. Professor Percy F.… … N the Greek Islands the art of embroidery is now dead. Itseems to have become extinct during the nineteenth cent-ury, but in some remote islands—for instance Astypalaea,Nisyros, and Telos—undoubtedly lasted much longer thanin others. That it lived so long in some islands is due totheir having been…

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