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    Feb. 15, 1886 Tie Publishers' Circular T...

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    art as it existed in Home before the triumph of

    Christianity have chapters . Following upon tapestry this we

    in the East from the begining of the Christian Era to

    the Crusades ; upon the Lower Empire ; and upon

    the condition of the art in the West from the ninth to

    the twelfth centuries . From the beginning of

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1886, page 147, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021886/page/5/