A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 68
y referred. These booksnever gave working drawings of details, and very seldom anyscale. The country carpenter was therefore left to his owndevices, and the results of his mother wit and the models givenin his pattern-books were something altogether astonishing.On the other hand, the actual… … CARVING: BUTCHERS ROW, HEREFORD. meeting, that of the building tradition of the countryside, andthat of the new fashion of ornamentation, filtered through hardlyintelligible pattern-books; the two run side by side at present,not yet fused into a reasonable method of design. So far, whatis good in…
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