The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First ProfessorsJones, Bence
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The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors
Jones, Bence
Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829; Royal Institution of Great Britain; Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814; Young, Thomas, 1773-1829
=HISTORY of the GOTHIC REVIVAL=; an Attempt to shew how far the taste
for Mediæval Architecture was retained in England during the last
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