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AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY
OF WORDS USED IN
ART AND ARCHÆOLOGY.
[All rights reserved.]
PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED, ST. JOHN’S SQUARE, LONDON.

APSE OF THE BASILICA OF ST. PAUL-WITHOUT-THE-WALLS, ROME.

[See Basilica, p. 37.

AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY
OF WORDS USED IN
ART AND ARCHÆOLOGY.
Explaining Terms frequently used in Works on Architecture, Arms, Bronzes, Christian Art, Colour, Costume, Decoration, Devices, Emblems, Heraldry, Lace, Personal Ornaments, Pottery, Painting, Sculpture, &c., with their Derivations.

By J. W. MOLLETT, B.A.
Officier de l’Instruction Publique (France);
AUTHOR OF THE LIVES OF “REMBRANDT” AND “WILKIE” IN THE “GREAT ARTISTS” SERIES.
London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, AND RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
1883.
vii

PREFACE.

This Dictionary was commenced as an amended edition of that writtenby M. Ernest Bosc, architect of Paris, and contains the 450 engravings publishedin the French work, to which about 250 more have been added. Littleor nothing, however, of the text of M. Bosc’s work has been left standing; hisdefinitions having, in the process of revision under reference to original works,almost entirely disappeared. The whole work, as it now stands, has beendrawn from, or carefully corrected by, the best authorities in each of its specialbranches. Considerable prominence has been given to Architecture, fromthe French original corrected from English writers; to Christian Antiquitiesfrom Martigny, and the Dictionary of Dr. Smith and ProfessorCheetham, and other authorities; to Mediæval Armour, and terms ofChivalry, chiefly from Meyrick’s Ancient Armour; to Costume from Planchéand Fairholt; to Heraldry from Boutell’s and Mrs. Bury Palliser’s works;to Pottery, the substance of the articles on this subject being derived fromM

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