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LEADWORK


  "_That which gives to the leadwork of the Middle Ages a particular
  charm is that the means they employed and the forms they adopted
  are exactly appropriate to the material. Like Carpentry or Cabinet
  work, Plumbing was an art apart which borrowed neither from stone
  nor wood in its design. Mediaeval lead was wrought like colossal
  goldsmith's work._"--VIOLLET-LE-DUC.




  LEADWORK
  OLD AND ORNAMENTAL
  AND FOR THE MOST PART
  ENGLISH. BY W. R. LETHABY
  WITH ILLVSTRATIONS

  [Illustration]

  1893
  Macmillan & Co., London & New York.


RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED

LONDON AND BUNGAY.




CONTENTS


     SECT.                                               PAGE

        I. OF MATERIAL AND CRAFTSMANSHIP                    1

       II. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH                             5

      III. OF LEAD COVERINGS TO BUILDINGS                  17

       IV. OF LEADED SPIRES AND TURRETS                    20

        V. OF DOMES                                        33

       VI. OF ROOFS                                        36

      VII. OF LEAD COFFINS                                 40

     VIII. OF FONTS                                        51

       IX. OF INSCRIPTIONS, ETC.                           65

        X. OF THE DECORATION OF LEAD                       72

       XI. OF LEAD ORNAMENTATION OF OTHER MATERIALS        80

      XII. OF DECORATIVE OBJECTS                           84

     XIII