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Title: Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872.
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908, author of introduction, etc
Subjects: Engraving Wood-engraving
Publisher: New York : Charles E. Merrill & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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