Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bronzes
The electro deposit, that ingeniously varied application of what, in our own memory, used to be merely a curious and striking demonstration of chemical or rather of voltaic action in the lecture - room, has now developed into various extensive branches of manufacture, and is of the greatest value in the repro duction of artistic objects in an enduring material. In England this method has been applied with singular success by the' Messrs. Elkington, the late signor Franchi, and by many able French and German manufacturers in their respective countries.
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