The Industrial Arts Historical Sketches with Numerous Illustrations in Two Parts Published for the Board of Education, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Chapman Chapman
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ISBN: 9781330848937
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Excerpt from The Industrial Arts Historical Sketches With Numerous Illustrations in Two Parts Published for the Board of Education, Vol. 1 of 2 These sketches are intended to supply, and especially for the use of those who know but little, some general information with regard to the history of the chief classes or divisions of art-workmanship. We know that many valuable books, and papers or articles in cyclopedias and serial publications, have been already written upon the same subjects: but they are not readily to be referred to when examining the collections themselves, and are often too expensive to be within the reach of the majority of people. The present little volume will meet, we hope, both these difficulties. The South Kensington museum, including the time when the collections were first exhibited at Marlborough House, has now been open to the public for very nearly a quarter of a century. It is scarcely possible to estimate the amount of influence for good which has been already exercised over the art productions of English workmen: and this has been widely owned, not only at home but abroad. Thousands upon thousands have every year passed through the galleries and courts; and even those who have come solely from an idle curiosity must have carried away with them the knowledge of very much about which they had hitherto been utterly ignorant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.