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An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (1903)

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. Further, where the early weavers had contented themselves with nineteencolours, the eighteenth-century weavers had an assortment of a thousand colours, each sub-divided intotwelve shades from dark to light. The result was, that after a time some of the more delicate hues fadedaway altogether,… … .—The Wolf pleading against the Foxbefore the Monkey. [2.^The Cock and the Fox. 212 (lobeliiis and Beauvai JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY. 8th Century.

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