Sentence examples for commission volume from inspiring English sources

Venetian artisans used a wide variety of fine materials and embellishments in order to transform the Commission volume in the symbol of its recipient's social status: the cover materials and decoration techniques could vary from simple parchment and gold tooled leather to silk velvet, brocade and, lastly, silver plates during the 18th century.

One buff actually purchases full sets of the commission volumes for both upstairs and downstairs so they will always be at her fingertips.

Her famous work was simply one in a series of commissioned volumes, and was mostly put together from other sources.

The Pilgrim Fathers set sail just two years before actors from Shakespeare's Globe clubbed together to commission a volume of his plays.

Sterling plans to see how the volumes sell before deciding whether to commission more volumes.

Her court commissioned the volume of hours, or illustrated daily devotions, around the time she separated from her spendthrift husband, Arnold of Egmond, and began a futile 30-year effort to unseat him.

These sketches were later used to illustrate the commission's three volume report.

She threatened to throw herself in unless Adrian Henri sent her earwig poem to Bloodaxe with a recommendation that they commission a thick volume of her verse.

America Online (AOL), however, first made the internet public in 1994 and initially its access was slow (involving dial-up) and to begin with it spread only quite slowly to those lower income sections of the population most associated with the commission of earlier volume crimes.

Having established himself as a leading authority on the American Civil War with the major portion of his eight-volume work Ordeal of the Union, 2 vol. (1947), The Emergence of Lincoln, 2 vol. (1950), and The War for Union, 4 vol. (1959 71)—Nevins headed the nation's Civil War Centennial Commission (1961 66) and helped to edit the commission's 15-volume Impact Series.

Extra-illustrated with watercolors in the margins by Louis Emile Benassit (1833-1902) specommissionedssioned for this volume.