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Title: Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places
Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting,
Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture

Author: Frederick William Fairholt

Release Date: August 28, 2008 [EBook #26449]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE GREAT HORSE.

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RAMBLES OF AN ARCHAEOLOGIST
AMONG OLD BOOKS AND IN OLD PLACES:

BEING

=Papers on Art,=

IN RELATION TO

ARCHAEOLOGY, PAINTING, ART-DECORATION, AND ART-MANUFACTURE.

BY FREDERICK WILLIAM FAIRHOLT, F.S.A.,
AUTHOR OF "DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ART," ETC.

=Illustrated with Two Hundred and Fifty-nine Wood Engravings.=

LONDON:
VIRTUE AND CO., 26, IVY LANE,
PATERNOSTER ROW.
1871.

EDITORIAL NOTE.

The following Papers originally appeared in the _Art-Journal_, for which
they were specially written. They are from the pen of that painstaking
and accurate archaeologist, the late F. W. FAIRHOLT, F.S.A. The
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