Part 7

Lead working as an art for the expression of beauty through material, with this ancestry of nearly two thousand years of beautiful workmanship behind it here in England, has in the present century been entirely killed out. Only one simple present use of lead can be mentioned as having the characteristic of an art--the expression of personal thought by the worker to give pleasure. This is nothing but the lining of stairs and floor spaces with sheet lead nailed with rows of copper nails, some examples of which are done with a certain taste. Pipe heads and other objects of a somewhat ornamental kind have recently been made again, but we must remember that ornament is not art, and these have only been carefully, painfully, “executed” to the architect’s drawings. The plumber’s art, as it was, for instance, when the Guild of Plumbers was formed, a craft to be graced by the free fancy of the worker, is a field untilled. That someone may again take up this fine old craft of lead-working as an artist and original worker, refusing to follow “designs” compiled by another from imperfectly understood old examples, but expressing only himself--this has been my chief hope in preparing the little book NOW CONCLUDED.

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Transcriber’s Note

Punctuation has been standardised. Missing periods and dashes have been supplied where obviously required. All other original errors and consistencies have been retained (of particular note is the ‘v’ for ‘u’ substitution in ‘ILLVSTRATIONS’ on the title page), except as follows:

Page 5: changed 2 to II (§ II. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH.) Page 5: changed whch to which (England herself which is the) Page 7: added missing footnote marker (Mycenæ and Tiryns.[1]) Page 17: changed Phoenician to Phœnician (Carthage by the Phœnician Dido is) Page 19: changed Sta. to St. (domes of St. Sophia and St. Mark’s.) Page 62: changed statutes to statues (font has leaden statues of the) Page 62: changed Walmsford to Wansford (Northamptonshire Wansford) Page 94: removed duplicate word ‘a’ (shoulder sank a little and) Page 103: added missing paragraph break (“All the above four figure yards) Page 109: changed enought to enough (’Twas enough to break my heart) Page 109: changed Chere to Cheere (Mr. John Cheere in St. Martin’s Lane,) Page 111: changed Bemfila to Bemfica (a garden at Bemfica “which eclipses) Page 124: changed Caumonts’s to Caumont’s (De Caumont’s _Abcdaire_.) Ads page 1: changed Manua to Manual (A Graduated System of Manual)