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Studio international (1893)

London, Cory, Adams & Mackay [etc.] · leaf 730

An illustration from Studio international, 1893, leaf 730
ogel von i8gy. By Otto JuliusBiERBAUN. (London: H. Grevel & Co.)—Thisquarto really demands the adjective quaint; onedislikes to employ even rightly a word so ill-used,but if the designs by F. Vallatton scattered throughits pages are not quaint, it only remains to callthem primitive. To be quite… … DRAWING BY W. B. MACDOUGALL FROM SONGS OF LOVE letterpress is introduced by a long preface, writtenin a vein of very heavy humour, with lengthy reasonsfor the publication of the work. The author alsoexpounds his views of the artistic production ofbooks, which would be more impressive if thespecimen…

Art · Decoration and ornament

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