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The bases of design

by Walter Crane · 1898

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A survey of design culminating up to Crane's own aesthetic principles, with hundreds of illustrations. A standard work focusing on the development of aesthetic design, dedicated to Charles Rowley, head of the Manchester Municipal School of Art.

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