Walter Gedde
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Walter Gedde was an English designer of the Jacobean period.
He is known for his influential A Booke of Sundry Draughtes principaly serving for Glasiers (London: Walter Dight, 1615).[1]
No further information for his biography is known.
The book contains 103 woodcut engravings. Gedde explained that his patterns were also suitable for plasterers and gardeners.[2]
Some designs derive from Sebastiano Serlio's Il Quattro Libri Dell'Architettura.