Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from English Lead Work: Its Art and History
The material which is available for illustration is so great in amount (particularly in pipe-heads, cisterns, and statues) and so scattered, that there are doubtless omitted both from illustration and reference many admirable examples, but a book has its limits. My collection of photographs contains many examples which I should have included but for the fear of overloading.
Those who are familiar with a cistern here and a statue there may look for them in vain: I can only hope that every important class of subject is represented. I have made but small reference to traditional methods of working lead as belonging rather to the technical that the artistic history of the metal's uses.
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