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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Plates bright and vivid. cover marked binding loose. Year 1909. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The growing sense of the decorative value of lead in architecture and the garden has created a demand for a larger history of the leadworker’s art which shall show. with some fulness what has been done in the past. Of books on the technical side of leadwork there has been no lack; the sanitary plumber has a library ready to his hand. The art and history of leadwork have found but one protagonist my friend Professor Lethaby but he is a host in himself. His little book published in 1893 and long out of print reminded us of the forgotten spirit of old leadwork with so just a perception and so stimulating a sympathy that I can do and would do no more than write myself down his disciple. Professor Lethaby relied on sketches chiefly from his own charming pencil for his 76 pictures. The 441 illustrations of this volume are almost exclusively from photographs or measured drawings. If haply this book be found to have merit it will be I think in its presentment for the first time of a full series of the chief uses of lead which demand the judgment of the artist as well as the capacity of the craftsman (OS)