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| Title | An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical |
| Author | Joseph Gwilt |
| Editor | Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau Papworth |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, 1876 |
| Original from | Michigan State University |
| Digitized | Oct 15, 2013 |
| Length | 1395 pages |
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