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Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work (1904)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 277

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mespressed thin plates of gold into moulds to save themselves 240 ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. the labour of embossing ; bookbinders stamped tiieir leatherncovers before ever it occurred to them to tool them in therather less mechanical manner of the sixteenth-century men.And, in fact, wherever an… … 239. STONEWARE MUG (fOR DETAIL SEE 238). days to the cheapening of ornament is so barefaced that itshould be easily avoided. Those who yield to it may almostbe supposed to have walked into it with their eyes open. Anartist with no inclination to scamp his work and no desire toget credit for more…

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