An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings ... each design accompanied by analytical and critical remarks ... (1842)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 999
ble floor, fragments of marble of different colours, and all reduced to equal sizes, that is, about the sixteenth of an inch in diameter, are spread on the terrass before it is dry, in regular patterns, by the same process as that employed in stencilling, and these are first beaten down, afterwards… … marbles. Such floors are common m Genoa and Venice. (See Quairemere de Quinci/ Dictionnaire Historique d\4rchitecture, art. Composto ; and BorgniSf Traite Elementaire de
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