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Iron Work-continued.

55. Coffer in wood, covered with leather, iron work, and keys.

56. Escutcheon in Iron and Keys from the Hotel Cluny

57. Knocker from the Royal Museum, Berlin. Door Plates for Knockers.

58. Padlocks, Locks and Borders in the Gothic style.

59. Latch and portion of a hinge

60. Lock of a Trunk and a Knocker from Munich.

61-62. Lower part of the left Door of Notre Dame, at Paris, shewing the elaborate hinges of the 12th Century.

63. Rings and Knockers and Bows of
Keys.

64. Fleurons and finials of wrought Iron.
65. Various pieces of Ironworks of the XV.
Century.

66. Knocker from M. Soyter's Collection.
67. Lock-plate and Door-handle ornamented
with foliage.

68. Knocker and Heads of Nails, XV.
Century.

69. Candle Branches, preserved in the Town Hall, at Cologne.

70. Engraved Steel and Iron Work from the Sauvageot Collection.

71. Iron Gate of the Cemetery of St. Peter, at Salzburg.

72. Knocker-plate from the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg.

73. Richly ornamented Knockers, XV. Century 74. Gates from Notre Dame, at Paris, ditto from Munich

75. Door-handles, etc.

76. Sepulchral Cross in wrought Iron, XVII. Century.

77. Ornaments in Iron, second half of XV. Century.

78. Rich Chandeliers and Lock-plate.

79. Door-handles and hinges, end of XV. Century.

80. Iron Gate in the Gothic style, 1510, at Heidingsfeld, near Würtzburg.

81. Locks and Keys from the Author's Collection.

82. Ornaments of the Gates of the "schöne Brünnen," at Nuremberg.

83. Iron Gates from the National Museum at Munich.

84. Splendid Well-cover in wrought Iron, on the Cathedral Square at Antwerp, dated

1470.

Alphabet designed and engraved on wood at
Ulm, circa 1470.

another alphabet, designed and engraved at Rome, circa 1550.

(These alphabets form the initial letters to the Text of this work.

Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, trans

lated from the Arabic by Baron Mac Guckin de SLANE,

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This was the first general Biographical Dictionary in the Arabic language; and it remains a wonderful testimony to the learning, genius, and industry of the author. The biographies are arranged in alphabetical order of names, and comprise distinguished individuals of every sect and nation in Islam, down to the thirteenth century, when Ibn Khallikan flourished. Moslem critics have blamed him for enlarging on the lives of poets and historical writers, at the expense of the learned doctors of law; but that very circumstance renders his book all the more valuable to the European reader.

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Knight's (H. Gally) Ecclesiastical Architecture

OF ITALY, FROM THE TIME OF CONSTANTINE TO THE XVTH CENTURY, with an Introduction and Text, 81 lithographic illustrations, 2 vols. the first reprinted, impl. folio, (pub. £10. 10s) hf. bd. roan, £4. 4s 1843-44 The object of this beautiful and interesting Work is to give examples of the Primitive Churches, and of the changes of style in Italian Architecture from the time of Constantine to the Fifteenth Century. Notwithstanding the number of publications which have been devoted to the elucidation of the forms and beauties of Ancient Architecture, there has not hitherto been one which sufficiently illustrates its early stages, and progressive advance in Italy, a subject full of interest to the Churchman, as well as to the Antiquary, and the Architect-Italy being the only country in which examples of the earliest period still remain, and in which the chain is unbroken.

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1859

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Marsden, 4to. cloth, uniform with the Numismata Hellenica, 5s 1864 Lee's Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical TERMS, compiled and arranged by the Rev. FREDERICK GEORGE LEe, D.C.L., F.S.A., Vicar of All Saints' Lambeth, 1 vol. 8vo. about 500 pp. with upwards of a hundred illustrations on wood, hf. bd. Roxburghe, elegant, £1. 1s

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This volume contains more than five thousand explanations of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical terms, both Eastern and Western. It has been the compiler's object to give in a comparatively small compass and in a popular form as much information as possible set forth in terse and clear language concerning the meaning of such terms-a subject of study peculiarly interesting and current at the present day, and one to which considerable attention is now being directed by the laity as well as the clergy. The compiler has been for many years collecting materials for the volume from all ordinary liturgical books and treatises, and has consulted nearly two hundred MSS., e.g., Church and Churchwardens' Accounts, of different periods, which throw much light both on the Statute law and Custom of the English Church. He has also made considerable use of the various County Histories, which contain so much un-tabulated information, and is indebted to many friends for notes, records of facts, literary guidance and friendly criticism. The illustrations are largely taken from English examples.

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