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HISTORICAL NOTES--ANTIQUITY, 1

ITALY IN MEDIAEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TIMES, 8

THE CLOISTERED INTARSIATORI AND THEIR PUPILS, 55

IN GERMANY AND HOLLAND, ENGLAND AND FRANCE, 84

THE PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE, 104

THE LIMITATIONS AND CAPABILITIES OF THE ART, 118

WORKSHOP RECEIPTS, 133

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GENERAL PREFACE TO THE SERIES

It is intended that each volume shall contain an historical sketch of the phase of design and craft treated of, with examples of the successful overcoming of the difficulties to be encountered in its practice, workshop recipes, and the modes of producing the effects required, with a chapter upon the limitations imposed by the material and the various modes of evading those limitations adopted by those who have not frankly accepted them.

PREFACE The subject treated of in this handbook has, until lately, received scant attention in England; and except for short notices of a general nature contained in such books as Waring's "Arts Connected with Architecture," technical descriptions, such as those in Holtzapffel's "Turning and Mechanical Manipulation," and a few fugitive papers, has not been treated in the English language. On the Continent it has, however, been the subject of considerable research, and in Italy, Germany, and France books have been published which either include it as part of the larger subject of furniture, or treat in considerable detail instances of specially-important undertakings. From these various sources I have endeavoured to gather as much information as possible without too wearying an insistence upon unimportant details, and now present the results of my selection for the consideration of that part of the public which is interested in the handicrafts which merge into art, and especially for the designer and craftsman, whose business it is or may be to produce such works in harmonious co-operation in the present day, as they often did in days gone by, and, it may be hoped, with a success akin to that attained in those periods to which we look back as the golden age of art.

The books from which I have drawn my information are principally the following:--

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