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A BOOK FOR ALL OWNERS AND LOVERS OF GARDENS 
English Leadwork 
Its Art and History 
By LAWRENCE WEAVER, F.S.A., Hon. A.RJI.B.A. 
Price 25/-. 440 ILLUSTRATIONS. 
| issn is essentially the English material for garden orna- 
ments. It takes its place as faithfully and naturally as 
marble does in Italy. While this volume deals as well with the 
more purely architectural uses 
of lead for pipe-heads, fonts, 
etc., many of its chapters are 
devoted wholly to garden statues, 
vases, cisterns, sundials and the 
like. No one who is interested 
in the Renaissance of formal 
gardening can afford to over- 
look this important work. It 
goes far to identify the statues 
and vases of the sculptors of 
the XVIIth and XVIIIth 
Centuries, who did so much 
to beautify old English 
A LEAD VASE. 
Specimen Illustration (reduced). gardens. 
