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Historic
Ornament.
TREATING UPON THE EVOLUTION,
TRADITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF
ARCHITECTURE AND OTHER APPLIED
ARTS.
PREPARED FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS
AND CRAFTSMEN.
· · ·
BY RICHARD GLAZIER,
Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects;
Head Master of the Municipal School
of Art, Manchester.
With 470 illustrations by the Author.
· · ·
LONDON:
B. T. BATSFORD, 94, HIGH HOLBORN.
1899.
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Manchester:
Printed by Chorlton & Knowles, Mayfield Press.
THIS manual has been prepared with the three-fold object of giving anelementary knowledge of Architecture and Historic Ornament, of awakeninga responsive and sympathetic feeling for the many beautiful andinteresting remains of ancient and mediæval civilization, and lastly ofdirecting the attention of students and craftsmen to the beauty,suggestiveness and vitality of the Industrial Arts of the past, andtheir intimate relation to the social and religious life of the people.
The advantages to be derived by students and craftsmen from such a studyare m