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Lyons, Harry

CHRISTOPHER DRESSER The People’s Designer 1834-1904.

Antique Collectors Club, Suffolk: 2005

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11'' x 8 3/4''. 320pp. with index. With over 400 colour and 250 black and white illustrations.

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