Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 360
hourone Cupid sharpens his arrow at the grindstone,running the grindstone with his foot upon a treadle,and at every hour the other Cupid strikes the anvilwith his hammer the necessary number of strokes.A brass figure of a youth with a bow stands belowthe dial, in front of the mirror in the back of… … A STRONG distinctionwas made in Americaduring the seventeenthand eighteenth centuriesbetween mirrors and looking-glasses; the name mirror wasapplied to a particular kind ofglass, either convex or concave,and one old authority states that a mirror is a circular convexglass in a gilt frame.…
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