Rariora; being notes of some of the printed books, manuscripts, historical documents, medals, engravings, pottery, etc., collected (1858-1900) (1902)
Hodgkin, John Eliot · London : S. Low, Marston & Co., ltd. · leaf 188
hemselves should be enabled in measure to renew, and posterity to share the delightsof the fleeting hours in which had perished so much of the labour and skill of the architect andartificer. Very fair and noble are the presentments of most of their platforms, pyramids, columns,arches, statue-capped… … N illustration and elucidation of the list of these displays I have beenable to bring together from various sources a considerable amountof historical material, by the aid of which an additional interest is,I think, given to the catalogue of engravings and reference is furnishedto some fetes of…
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