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    "_... And remembering these, trust Pindar for the truth of his
    saying, that to the cunning workman--(and let me solemnly enforce
    the words by adding, that to him only)--knowledge comes
    undeceitful._"

                                   --RUSKIN ("Aratra Pentelici").

    "_'Very cool of Tom,' as East thought but didn't say,'seeing as
    how he only came out of Egypt himself last night at bed-time.'_"

                                   --("Tom Brown's Schooldays").




    THE ARTISTIC CRAFTS SERIES
      OF TECHNICAL HANDBOOKS
      EDITED BY W. R. LETHABY

        STAINED GLASS WORK




[Illustration: CUTTING AND GLAZING

_Frontispiece_ (_See p. 137_)]




       STAINED GLASS WORK
    A TEXT-BOOK FOR STUDENTS
    AND WORKERS IN GLASS. BY
    C. W. WHALL. WITH DIAGRAMS
    BY TWO OF HIS APPRENTICES
    AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS

            NEW YORK
     D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
             MCMXIV




    Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO.
    at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh




    _To his Pupils and Assistants, who, if they
    have learned as much from him as he has
    from them, have spent their time profitably;
    and who, if they have enjoyed learning as
    much as he has teaching, have spent it happily;
    this little book is Dedicated by their Affectionate
    Master and Servant,_

                                   _THE AUTHOR._




EDITOR'S PREFACE


In issuing these volumes of a series of Handbooks on the Artistic
Craft