文档介绍：Tools of the Imagination
Tools of the Imagination:
Drawing Tools and Technologies from
the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Susan C. Piedmont-Palladino, editor
PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS, NEW YORK
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Page vi: Specimens of Drawing Paper (in Allegorical wood-cut). Reprinted from Ackerman’s Repository,
Supplement to Vol. III (1810).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tools of the imagination : drawing tools and technologies from the eighteenth century to the present /
Susan Piedmont-Palladino, editor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-1-56898-599-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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