Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 160
e shops. I do not mean to convey the impression that all UTILITY THE FIRST THING TO BE CONSIDERED. 145 things made at these ecclesiastical warehouses are good, and that all things ofBirmingham (or Sheffield) manufacture are bad, for I have seen indifferent works inthese mediaeval shops, and I have… … Fig. 163. Fig. 104. good, and as a rule the works in hardware produced by Birmingham and Sheffieldare bad, in point of art. It will appear a mere repetition if I insist that the materials of which works ofhardware are formed be used in the easiest manner in which they can be worked, andthat every…
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