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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 50

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es its charm to a certain union andregidarity of feeling, the other adds to its effectsfrom complexity and the combination of thegreatest extreme. The Classical appeals to senseand habit, the Gothic or romantic strikes fromnovelty, strangeness, and contrast. Both arefounded in essential and… … ingenious drill-stock, registered by that old-established firm, J. Moseley and Son, 17 and 18,New-street, Covent-garden, a firm that has fornearly a century been celebrated for the manu-facture of mechanical tools, and but for whoseassiduity numbers of newly-invented tools wouldnever have been…

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