A history of English wallpaper, 1509-1914

1926·43.7 MB·English

by  Sugden, Alan Victor

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Frontispiece. 18th CENTURY ENGLISH WALLPAPER ON DISTEMPER GROUND
A remarkably fine specimen of English block-printed wallpaper. Part of five unused pieces still remaining from the decoration
of the Manor House, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, in 1769. Printed from four blocks on a distemper ground.
The paper bears the "G.R." Excise stamp, with the serial figure "4." Authorship attributed to Bromwich, of Ludgate
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Hill, or Spinnage, of Cockspur Street. Reduction 1 5. Two other papers from the Manor House are illustrated in
Plates 39a and 39b. Permission, Mrs. Simpson-Hayward.