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Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, cabinet-makers and artistic locksmiths as well as also for technical schools, libraries and private study (1910)

Speltz, Alexander, O'Conor, David · New York : E. Weyhe · leaf 248

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magnificent specimesthan those which are illustrated on plate 173, where the decorative forms followclosely the nature of the material in wrought iron or bronze. The Gothic let-tering engraved on the bronze plates of tombs, as illustrated on plate 175 shewshow beautiful a surface or flat ornament… … From a German 15th century manuscript (Dolmetsch). 238 GOTHIC ORNAMENT.

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