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Audsley, George Ashdown

architect, author, was born in 1838 in Scotland. He is a Scottish architect and art writer of note of Plainfield, N. J. With his brother, William James Audsley, he has published Colour in Dress; a Manual for Ladies; Floral Decoration of Churches; Cottage, Lodge, and Village Architecture; Outlines of Ornament in the Leading Styles; Popular Dictionary of Architecture and the Allied Arts, in ten volumes; Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in the Mediæval Styles; and (with James Lord Bowes) The Keramic Art of Japan. His separate works include Guide to the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting; Handbook of Christian Symbolism; The Art of Chromo-Lithography; Notes on Japanese Art; and The Ornamental Arts of Japan.