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Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco, Gray Brechin ... [et al.] ; Jack W. Stauffacher, editor

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Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco, Gray Brechin ... [et al.] ; Jack W. Stauffacher, editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Gray Brechin ... [et al.] ; Jack W. Stauffacher, editor

Table Of Contents

Preface : Vita sine literis mors est / Andrea V. Grimes -- Indestructible by reason of beauty : the beaumanence of a public library building / Gray Brechin -- The inscriptions : where they came from, how they were made / Michael Harvey -- Rock wraps paper / Sumner Stone -- A note on photographing the inscriptions / Dennis Letbetter -- Of the inscriptions and symbols carved on sepulchres / Leon Battista Alberti [in an 18th-century translation by Giacomo Leoni]

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Inscriptions

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