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  • Cover of: Ornamentstil

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  • Cover of: Ornaments of the XVth and XVIth centuries.: Ancient timber houses at Rouen, Caen, Bauvais, &c., Gothic furniture of the XVth century. Designs for gold & silver ornaments, and designs for iron & brass-work in the style of the XVth & XVIth centuries.

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  • Cover of: The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs: or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved one hundred and eighty-fix Copper plates, for piers, gates, doors, windowns, niches, buffets, cisterns, chimney pieces, tabernacle frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar pieces, monuments, fonts, obelisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's and stone tables, book-cafes, cielings and iron works ; proprortioned by Aliquot Pars ; with an appendix of fourteen plates of strusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c ; to which are prefix'd the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio ; whose members are apportioned by Aliquot Pars, in a more easy manner, than has yet been done ; the whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. the like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language

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  • Cover of: Gothic architecture: improved by rules and proportions, in many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... : with plans, elevations and profiles, geometrically explained

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  • Cover of: A specimen of cast ornaments

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  • Cover of: Book of type specimens.: Comprising a large variety of superior copper-mixed types, rules, borders, galleys, printing presses, electric-welded chases, paper and card cutters, wood goods, book binding machinery etc., together with valuable information to the craft. Specimen book no.9.

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  • Cover of: Designs for needlework.

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  • Cover of: Architecture: ou Art de bien bastir

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  • Cover of: Heraldry and floral forms as used in decoration

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  • Cover of: Historic design in printing: reproductions of book covers, borders, initials, decorations, printers' marks and devices comprising reference material for the designer, printer, advertiser and publisher

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  • Cover of: Ornament, two thousand decorative motifs in colour: forming a survey of the applied art of all ages and all countries

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  • Cover of: Handbook of designs & devices: 1836 basic designs and their variations

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  • Cover of: Desk book of type specimens, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts

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  • Cover of: Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America: som nu förtjden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania.

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  • Cover of: Supplementary catalogue
    First published in 1917 1 edition work

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  • Cover of: A complete guide to heraldry

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  • Cover of: Scotland in pagan times: the iron age.

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  • Cover of: Essai sur les maladies qui attaquent le plus communement les gens de mer, contenant une méthode courte & facile pour les connoître, les guérir, & même en préserver.: Ouvrage utile aux chirurgiens naviguans, & même à tous les marins qui se trouvent dans des bâtimens où il n'y a point de chirurgien. On a joint quelques observations sur la méthode la plus sûre de secourir les noyés, & de traiter les fiévres de l'Isle Saint Domingue & des autres colonies françoises aux Antilles.

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  • Cover of: A handbook of ornament with 300 plates containing about 3,000 illustrations of the elements, and the application of decoration to objects

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  • Cover of: A cyclopedia of costume, or, dictionary of dress, including notices of contemporaneous fashions on the continent: a general chronological history of the costumes of the principal countries of Europe, from the commencement of the Christian era to the accession of George the Third.

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  • Cover of: A cyclopedia of costume, or, dictionary of dress, including notices of contemporaneous fashions on the continent: a general chronological history of the costumes of the principal countries of Europe, from the commencement of the Christian era to the accession of George the Third.

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  • Cover of: An introduction to heraldry.

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  • Cover of: British costume: a complete history of the dress of the inhabitants of the British islands

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  • Cover of: Chronographia ou reportorio dos tempos: o mais copioso que te agora sayo a luz, conforme a noua reformação do Sancto Papa Gregorio XIII

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  • Cover of: Our flag.: Origin and progress of the flag of the United States of America, with an introductory account of the symbols, standards, banners and flags of ancient and modern naitons

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  • Cover of: Architecture and sculpture in early Britain: Celtic, Saxon, Norman

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  • Cover of: What shall I eat?: The housewife's manual.

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  • Cover of: Vier tractätlein Fr. Basilii Valentini benedicter ordens von dem grossen stäin der vralten weysen maister, vnd artzneyen menschlicher gesundheyt: deren er in seinen andern schrifften gedencket, aber vor diesem niemahlen an tag kommen seind, alss nemblich seine : 1. Handgriffe vber die bereitung des grossen steins : 2. Handgriffe wie er seine artzneyen gemacht hat : 3. Schlussreden vom sulphure, victriolo, vnnd magnete : 4. Supplementum oder zugabe

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  • Cover of: Pattern design: a book for students treating in a practical way of the anatomy, planning & evolution of repeated ornament

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  • Cover of: Designs for Gothic ornaments & furniture

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  • Cover of: Embroidery hints: Fall and Winter 1910

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  • Cover of: Fine hand embroidery
    First published in 1914 1 edition work

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  • Cover of: The decorative periods
    First published in 1906 1 edition work

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  • Cover of: Painting and decorating

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  • Cover of: Painting and decorating
    First published in 1913 1 edition work

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  • Cover of: New dimensions, the decorative arts of today in words & pictures

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  • Cover of: Designs for shop-fronts and door-cases

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  • Cover of: Book of type specimens: Comprising a large variety of superior copper-mixed types, rules, borders, galleys, printing presses, electric-welded chases, paper and card cutters, wood goods, book binding machinery etc., together with valuable information to the craft. Specimen book no.9.

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  • Cover of: Sixty alphabets

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  • Cover of: Lettering of today

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  • Cover of: Handbook of early advertising art, mainly from American sources: typographical & ornamental volume

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  • Cover of: Design motifs of ancient Mexico.

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  • Cover of: Manuel de dessins pour crochet
    First published in 1800 1 edition work

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  • Cover of: Emblemata nobilitati et vulgo scitu digna

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History

August 26, 2015 Edited by Xephyr Inkpen updated list seeds.
February 4, 2013 Edited by Xephyr Inkpen updated list seeds.
January 15, 2013 Edited by Xephyr Inkpen updated list seeds.
January 15, 2013 Edited by Xephyr Inkpen updated list seeds.
June 8, 2011 Created by Xephyr Inkpen Created new list.