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Handbook of ornament : a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use (1900)

Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-1927 · New York, B. Hessling · leaf 494

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478 … E. JEWELRY. The love of personal adornment is as old as mankind itself; as is proved by the relics which have been preserved from the earliest times. Personal adornment, broadly taken, is a somewhat extensive domain; it includes the Painting and Tattooing of the body, Clothing, as soon as this…

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