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title - page , in the style of the thirteenth century , according to the blazon upon which Sir S. R. Meyrick did us the honour to give his valuable opinion . To the able hand of Mr. C. A. Hanlon we are indebted for the block ...
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... centuries at least , was fostered by the incontestable progress made in mechanical skill and scientific discovery ... century , to whatever causes , primary or secondary , it may be ascribed , certainly tended to take men back along ...
... centuries at least , was fostered by the incontestable progress made in mechanical skill and scientific discovery ... century , to whatever causes , primary or secondary , it may be ascribed , certainly tended to take men back along ...
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... century , was the eighteenth : and when we look back at the condition in which these arts were one hundred years ago , especially in our own country , we feel perplexed to account satisfactorily for their rapid revival , and their ...
... century , was the eighteenth : and when we look back at the condition in which these arts were one hundred years ago , especially in our own country , we feel perplexed to account satisfactorily for their rapid revival , and their ...
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... century to the tawdry shop or gin - palace of the nineteenth . Fifty years ago it was supposed that typographical ... centuries back . Our fathers adorned their sideboards with plate of meagre and unmeaning design , void of all traces of ...
... century to the tawdry shop or gin - palace of the nineteenth . Fifty years ago it was supposed that typographical ... centuries back . Our fathers adorned their sideboards with plate of meagre and unmeaning design , void of all traces of ...
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... century is closed . Manuscripts would no more be sold to the bookbinder , to serve as braces for his volumes ; nor would illuminated pages be defaced , in order that their spoils might grace some fair lady's album . Old family plate ...
... century is closed . Manuscripts would no more be sold to the bookbinder , to serve as braces for his volumes ; nor would illuminated pages be defaced , in order that their spoils might grace some fair lady's album . Old family plate ...
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