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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 401

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well-defined principle, but in its use ofmidtiple ribs resembles the German rather than the Eng-lish Gothic. The rib-patterns though often designed asabstract decorations rather than as a structural frame-work (Figure 383), are nevertheless always true ribs,not mere moldings carved out of the…

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