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    Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

    Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

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    Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.  A President Obama "O" Book Club pick. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always...
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    Sunday Suns Sunday Suns

    Sunday Suns

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    Sunday Suns is an experiment. It is play. It is half therapy and half visual journalism – a small way to inject our world with some much needed positivity and light. Sunday Suns is the weekly project of American designer Tad Carpenter, who has taken on...
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    My Broken Language My Broken Language

    My Broken Language

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    Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced their defiance in a tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her mother and aunts and cousins, but haunted by the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio—even as she...
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    Vintage Modern: Design with a Past Vintage Modern: Design with a Past

    Vintage Modern: Design with a Past

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    Drawing inspiration from the past is fertile ground for designers, who often update classic iconography to create modern designs that evoke the charm of previous decades while staying true to a client's needs. These creatives blend the look and feel of...
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    Desert Song by Laekan Zea Kemp Desert Song by Laekan Zea Kemp

    Desert Song by Laekan Zea Kemp

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    A family joins the music of the Texas desert night in this tale of tradition and memory. It starts with a soft tapping, Uncle Eduardo drumming his hands against his dusty jeans. As the blush of sunset gives way to night in the desert, coyotes, cicadas,...
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    Is Earth Exceptional? The Quest for Cosmic Life Is Earth Exceptional? The Quest for Cosmic Life

    Is Earth Exceptional? The Quest for Cosmic Life

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    Copy signed by the author. A New York Times–bestselling astrophysicist and a Nobel laureate take us on "a mesmerizing exploration" (Jennifer Doudna) to discover how and where the universe breathed itself into life. For a long time, scientists have...
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    Pinta La Revolucion Arte Moderno Mexicano 1910-1950 Pinta La Revolucion Arte Moderno Mexicano 1910-1950

    Pinta La Revolucion Arte Moderno Mexicano 1910-1950

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    In the wake of the 1910-20 Revolution, Mexico emerged as a center of modern art, closely watched around the world. This books highlights the achievements of the tres grandes (three greats), Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros,...
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    Modern Man in the Making Facsimile Edition Modern Man in the Making Facsimile Edition

    Modern Man in the Making Facsimile Edition

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    A gorgeous facsimile of an ultrarare, canonical volume from the pioneer of infographics, analyzing “fundamental trends in the social, political and economic life of humanity.” Otto Neurath’s famous Modern Man in the Making, first published by Alfred A...
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    Encountering Genius Houdon's Portraits of Benjamin Franklin Encountering Genius Houdon's Portraits of Benjamin Franklin

    Encountering Genius Houdon's Portraits of Benjamin Franklin

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    Benjamin Franklin caused a sensation when he arrived in Paris in December 1776 seeking support for America's struggle for independence: nobles vied to entertain him, and artists scrambled to portray him. Although several artists produced sculpted busts...
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    Thomas Chimes Adventures in Pataphysics Thomas Chimes Adventures in Pataphysics

    Thomas Chimes Adventures in Pataphysics

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    Thomas Chimes (b. 1921) was one of Philadelphia’s most important artists. Tracing the stylistic evolution of Chimes’s idiosyncratic art, this handsome book presents a long-overdue survey of his remarkable five-decade career: canvases combining landscape...
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    Rhythms of India The Art of Nandalal Bose Rhythms of India The Art of Nandalal Bose

    Rhythms of India The Art of Nandalal Bose

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    This is the exhibition catalog to accompany the first exhibition of Bose's work outside of Asia. The show was organized by the San Diego Museum of Art in 2008 and came to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 2008. Known as the father of Indian...
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    Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place

    Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place

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    Through essays, photo-essays, and a conversation between Black designer Stephen Burks (b. 1969) and the late cultural critic bell hooks, this book contextualizes Burks’s wide-ranging work while exploring design’s influence on politics, society, and...
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    Remarks on Color Eve Wood Remarks on Color Eve Wood

    Remarks on Color Eve Wood

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    Artist, critic and poet Eve Wood has a ribald sense of humor and for decades has had a distinctive presence in the Southern California art world. This is her first monograph, featuring a collection of off-beat, imaginative color studies populated with...
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    Invitation to A Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food Invitation to A Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

    Invitation to A Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

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    Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world’s best-loved culinary traditions and one of...
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    Me and the Boss Me and the Boss

    Me and the Boss

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    Meet Lee, a little boy who won't give up until he learns how to sew, and Zora, the sister who watches him try--and ultimately succeed! "I know big sisters. Zora, the boss, she's mine," explains Lee as he and Zora head to the library, where Mrs. C is...
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    Philly Made
    50 First (Tree) Dates Volume 2 Zine 50 First (Tree) Dates Volume 2 Zine

    50 First (Tree) Dates Volume 2 Zine

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    A guide to going on dates with people to visit trees in Philadelphia, PA.  There are 25 more tree-dates out there! What is our social relationship to plants? Can we create a feeling of belonging within a landscape? Tree Dates provide an opportunity...
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    Little Green Fingers: Easy Peasy Gardening Activities Little Green Fingers: Easy Peasy Gardening Activities

    Little Green Fingers: Easy Peasy Gardening Activities

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    The followup to the much-loved Easy Peasy, Little Green Fingers is packed full of even more fun gardening activities for children! The followup to the much-loved Easy Peasy, Little Green Fingers is packed full of even more fun gardening activities for...
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    Creating Connections Creating Connections

    Creating Connections

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    Creating Connections features over 70 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and watercolors from the Rosenthal Collection of work by self-taught artists. This richly illustrated publication explores the mysterious connections we have with works of art and...
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    How to Be A Design Student How to Be A Design Student

    How to Be A Design Student

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    Designer, artist, and educator Mitch Goldstein's experience as student and teacher gives guidance and inspiration to help students get the most out of design school. Life  as a design student is filled with questions. Rochester Institute of...
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    Extraordinary Women with Cameras Extraordinary Women with Cameras

    Extraordinary Women with Cameras

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    Ever since photography was invented almost 200 years ago, women have broken barriers and influenced the artform. Now, this first-ever children's book about women photographers tells the stories of 35 of the most talented historical and contemporary...
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    Isaac Julien: Riot Isaac Julien: Riot

    Isaac Julien: Riot

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    Riot is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influences that shaped them. Julien’s trail-blazing career has moved across film and art, documentary, biography,...
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     Computer Generated: A 3-D Art Anthology  Computer Generated: A 3-D Art Anthology

    Computer Generated: A 3-D Art Anthology

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    3D Art is in a transformative moment. It can now be created, promoted, bought and sold all within the boundaries of digital space. This dynamic art movement is enabled by new tools and is limited only by the imagination of its creators. Artists working...
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     You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!  You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!

    You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!

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    "Creeeeak!" goes the screen door to self-taught artist Elijah Pierce's barbershop art studio. A young boy walks in for an ordinary haircut and walks out having discovered a lifetime of art. Mr. Pierce's wood carvings are in every corner of the small...
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    Italian Renaissance Ceramics Italian Renaissance Ceramics

    Italian Renaissance Ceramics

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    More than ninety objects, painted in vibrant colors that have survived half a millennium with undiminished brilliance, are reproduced in color and in black and white. Together they represent the various shapes,  ornamentation, ambitious...
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    Building Toys: An Architect's Collection Building Toys: An Architect's Collection

    Building Toys: An Architect's Collection

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    The book Building Toys: An Architect’s Collection documents over 100 architectural building toys from the author’s collection, from the mid-1800s to the present, from the U.S. and abroad.  Each toy has an immersive two-page spread celebrating its...
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     Easy Peasy Gardening for Kids  Easy Peasy Gardening for Kids

    Easy Peasy Gardening for Kids

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    An introduction to easy gardening so you can grow everywhere and anywhere. Whether you live in the city or the countryside, there are plenty of places you can plant and grow. For a new generation of green fingers there are different ways to bring nature...
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    Matisse Stories by ASByatt Matisse Stories by ASByatt

    Matisse Stories by A.S.Byatt

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    These stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and...
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    CreARTivity Book CreARTivity Book

    CreARTivity Book

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    Your child will have loads of creative fun exploring a world where cork stoppers have eyes, a nose, and a mouth! Where pencils may have legs and pebbles can wear hats! Simple objects can be transformed into animals, people, buildings, and vehicles. This...
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    River of Forms Giuseppe Penones Drawings River of Forms Giuseppe Penones Drawings

    River of Forms: Giuseppe Penone's Drawings

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    This exhibition publication is available with 3 different covers. 2 of the 3 are exclusive to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Only the covers vary; the interior content for all 3 covers is the same.  A groundbreaking look at the drawings of Giuseppe...
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    True Colors True Colors

    True Colors

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    A green cloud and a white tree? Who is responsible for illustrating this book? True Colors begins innocently with two friends, their dog, and their kite, but each time the story gets started, more colors seem to go awry. The narrator implores the reader...
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    Fragile Demon Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935 to 1950 Fragile Demon Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935 to 1950

    Fragile Demon Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935 to 1950

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    One of Mexico's most important modern artists, Juan Soriano (1920?2006) served as a link between the nationalist imagery of the Mexican muralists and the experimental vanguard of the 1950s and 1960s known as "La Ruptura". This fascinating book, which...
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    Bruce Nauman Contrapposto Studies Bruce Nauman Contrapposto Studies

    Bruce Nauman Contrapposto Studies

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    The catalogue for the exhibition at Punta della Dogana.  The show in Venice will present two major works jointly owned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Pinault Collection (Contrapposto Studies, I through VII from 2015/2016 and Walks In Walks...
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    Facing China Truth and Memory in Portraiture Facing China Truth and Memory in Portraiture

    Facing China: Truth and Memory in Portraiture

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    A highly illustrated examination of portraiture in China across media and millennia. Facing China  is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography, and...
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    Martine Syms Neural Swamp Martine Syms Neural Swamp

    Martine Syms: Neural Swamp

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    Martine Syms’s Neural Swamp is an immersive installation that reflects the artist’s ongoing research into machine systems that erase or exploit Black bodies, voices, and narratives. This multichannel video presentation, created using AI technologies,...
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    George Inness in Italy Bulletin George Inness in Italy Bulletin

    George Inness in Italy Bulletin

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    A canonical figure in American painting, George Inness (1825-1894) is widely admired as the pioneer of the landscape aesthetic known as Tonalism, which is distinguished by soft focus and diaphanous layers of paint.  This the first book about the...
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    Philadelphia Museum of Art Richard Benson The World Is Smarter Than You Are Philadelphia Museum of Art Richard Benson The World Is Smarter Than You Are

    Richard Benson: The World Is Smarter Than You Are

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    A wide-ranging retrospective that reveals a master printer’s own photographs to be technically brilliant work of remarkable breadth and complexity.This book presents the first in-depth survey of photographs by Richard Benson (1943–2017), who...
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    Philadelphia Museum of Art Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror Philadelphia Museum of Art Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror

    Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror

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    Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is one of the most influential artists living today . Over the past 65 years, he has produced a radical and varied body of work marked by constant reinvention. Inspired by the artist’s long-standing fascination with mirroring and...
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    Philadelphia Museum of Art Tall Case Clock Face Bookmark Philadelphia Museum of Art Tall Case Clock Face Bookmark

    Tall Case Clock Face Bookmark

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    While it is easy to lose time when reading a good page turner, you won't loose your place with this bookmark detailing the face of a tall case clock in the museum's Early American Art collection. German-born watch- and clockmaker Frederick Dominick...
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    Philadelphia Museum of Art Italian Master Drawings Philadelphia Museum of Art Italian Master Drawings

    Italian Master Drawings

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    The Philadelphia Museum of Art is fortunate to have a collection of Italian drawings that encompasses a broad sweep of Italy’s art history, from the Renaissance to Futurism to the contemporary, and includes works by such famed artists as Batoni,...
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    Philadelphia Museum of Art Armor & Animals Philadelphia Museum of Art Armor & Animals

    Armor & Animals

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    Did you ever wonder where people got the idea of wearing armor?  Or, did you ever look at an armadillo and see it was wearing armor just like the knights of old?  Now you can see and compare all kinds of armor. This is a great way to learn how...
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    Philadelphia Museum of Art Designs For Different Futures Philadelphia Museum of Art Designs For Different Futures

    Designs For Different Futures

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    Designs for Different Futures records the concrete ideas and abstract dreams of designers, artists, academics, and scientists exploring how design might reframe our futures, socially, ethically, and aesthetically. Encompassing nearly one hundred...
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    Philadelphia Museum of Art An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew Philadelphia Museum of Art An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew

    An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew

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    Kathleen A. Foster (Author) and Mark Tucker (Author) Thomas Eakins is acknowledged as one of the preeminent American painters of the 19th century. As a young artist in 1875 he prepared a monumental painting for the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia...
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    Philadelphia Museum of Art Paris Through The Window: Marc Chagall And His Circle Philadelphia Museum of Art Paris Through The Window: Marc Chagall And His Circle

    Paris Through The Window: Marc Chagall And His Circle

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    By Michael R. Taylor This scholarly catalogue provides an engaging analysis of Chagall’s life and career in the early decades of the twentieth century. Featured throughout are the paintings and works on paper that the artist created during these years,...
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    Philadelphia Museum of Art Roberto Capucci: Art Into Fashion Philadelphia Museum of Art Roberto Capucci: Art Into Fashion

    Roberto Capucci: Art Into Fashion

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    By Dilys E. Blum Italian couturier Roberto Capucci (born 1930) is revered by contemporary fashion designers for his innovative silhouettes and masterful use of color and materials. Capucci refers to his creations as "studies in form" and draws...
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     Worldly Goods: The Arts Of Early Pennsylvania, 1680 - 1758

    Worldly Goods: The Arts Of Early Pennsylvania, 1680 - 1758

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    Jack Lindsey(Author) with essays by Edward C. Carter ll, Richard S. Dunn, and Richard Saunders Focusing on Philadelphia's prominent role in the history of Colonial America, this exhibition catalogue surveys the decorative and fine arts produced during...
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    Philadelphia Museum of Art The 1772 Philadelphia Furniture Price Book: A Facsimile Philadelphia Museum of Art The 1772 Philadelphia Furniture Price Book: A Facsimile

    The 1772 Philadelphia Furniture Price Book: A Facsimile

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    By Alexandra  Alevizatos  Kirtley In 1772, a group of Philadelphia artisans published Prices of Cabinet and Chair Work, a 36-page booklet listing furniture forms, retail prices, and journeymen's wages. Rediscovered in 2003, the single surviving...
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