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Excerpt from Cromwell: Drame A la vérité plusieurs des principaux champions des saines doctrines littéraires lui ont fait l'honneur de lui jeter le gant, jusque dans sa profonde obscurité a lui, simple et imperceptible spectateur de cette curieuse mèlée. Il n'aura pas la fatuité de le relever. Voici, dans les pages qui vont suivre, les observations qu'il pourrait leur opposer; voici sa fronde et sa pierre mais d'autres, 's'ils veulent les jetteront à la tète des Goliath classiques. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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A comprehensive and fascinating volume which traces the chronological development of furniture design from the work of Inigo Jones in the 16th century to the work of Sheraton in the early 19th century. Illustrated with 3,500 drawings (some engravings reproduced from the pattern books of the great designers, and others specially drawn by the author) of such once-common household items as Chippendale and Hogarth chairs, dials, cisterns, windows, clocks, cabinets, tables, bedsteads, chests, and screens. This is a wonderful reference book for both the dealer and the collector. Originally published in 1908.Thomas Arthur Strange is also the author of An Historical Guide to French Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork and Allied Arts.
Melville Davisson Post created his famous character, Randolph Mason, in 1894. Mason was a highly skilled and unscrupulous lawyer who used the law to defeat the ends of justice. Generally in the stories in this book he shows the villain how to circumvent the law.Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was a lawyer, political insider, and candidate for President of the United States (Democrat, 1924). He was one of the really great writers of the detective short story and is ranked in the same class as Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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