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Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
Untitled.
Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
Untitled.
Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
Untitled.
Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
Untitled.
Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
Untitled.
Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
Untitled.
Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
Tvtte l'opere d'archittetvra, et prospetiva
In his seven-volume Tutte l'opere d'architettura that first appeared in 1584, Serlio aimed to provide a practical manual of architecture while avoiding explicit theory. As such the work became one of the most influential of all publications on…
Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China [front cover].
In 1844, Evariste Régis Huc (1813-1860), a French Lazarist missionary, was ordered to explore the area surrounding the mission at Si-Wang (Hsi-wan-tse), about 200 kilometres to the northwest of Peking (Beijing). He and his companion, Joseph Gabet,…
Tongue cut sparrow.
Chirimen books are thought to have been invented in August 1885, when a Japanese fairy tale series was published by Hasegawa Takejiro (1853-1936). The books were illustrated by Sensei Eitaku. Thirty-one popular Japanese folktales were translated…
Tokohou : [the story of Prince Tokugawa the fifteenth].
In 1867, the last shōgun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, resigned and the Emperor, Mutsuhito, regained the position of actual head of government. Mutsuhito took the name Meiji ('enlightened government') to designate his reign and this became his imperial…
Through China with a Camera [front cover].
"Cixi huang hou yu bi zhi bao" are the words of the seal of the Empress Dowager Tsze Hsi. This seal was used to confirm authorship of documents written by her.
'My design is to present a series of pictures of China and its people, such as shall…
'My design is to present a series of pictures of China and its people, such as shall…
The Silk Cord Makers.
"The figures represented ... are engaged in manufacturing silk-twist by a very different mode to that adopted by Europeans. Their machinery is not horizontal, but vertical. The threads are extended round a truncated cone. The females who twist…
The Shogun's audience.
A. Is the throne or Audience-seat of his majesty, where he shows himself to his Princes and Nobles.
B. Are the buildings in which his Majesty is housed, consisting of more than seventy dwelling-places.
C. Are the buildings in which his majesty…
B. Are the buildings in which his Majesty is housed, consisting of more than seventy dwelling-places.
C. Are the buildings in which his majesty…
The serpent with eight heads.
Chirimen books are thought to have been invented in August 1885, when a Japanese fairy tale series was published by Hasegawa Takejiro (1853-1936). The books were illustrated by Sensei Eitaku. Thirty-one popular Japanese folktales were translated…
The ruins of Pæstum
The Greek temples at Paestum in southern Italy were almost unknown until the 1750s. They became better known through publication. This book by Thomas Major was one of the first that enabled architects of Northern and Western Europe to study the three…