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Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 127

An illustration from Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy, 1915, leaf 127
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