Dresser, Christopher · London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 163
145 UTILITY THE FIRST THIXG TO BE CONSIDERED. thing's made at these ecclesiastical warehouses are good, and that all things of Birmingham (or Sheffield) manufacture are bad, for I have seen indifferent works in these mediaeval shops, and I have seen excellent things from Birmingham — especially I… … Fig-. 163. Fig. 164. good, and as a rule the works in hardware produced by Birmingham and Sheffield are bad, in jwint of art. It will appear a mere repetition if I insist that the materials of which works of hardware are formed be used in the easiest manner in which they can be worked, and that…
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