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The grammar of ornament / by Owen Jones. Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament. One hundred folio plates ; drawn on stone by F. Bedford ; and printed in colours by Day and son.

Accession number
PML 146717
Creator
Jones, Owen, 1809-1874.
Published
London : Day and Son, 1856.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
First ed.
Added chromolithographic t.p.
With contributions by J.B. Waring, J.O. Westwood, and M. Digby Wyatt.
Illustrated with numerous wood engravings within the text and 100 plates executed in tinted lithograph or chromolithography.
Plates drawn on stone by Francis Bedford, with the assistance of H. Fielding, W.R. Tymms, A. Warren, and S. Sedgfield.
"Books referred to for illustrations, literary and pictorial"--1 p. preceding pl. LXXIV.
Pagination sequences: [1], 6, [2], 4, 6, 4, 2, 4, 4,4, 2, 8, 2, 3, 2, 2, 7, 5, 15, [1], 4, 14, 4 p.
Description
1 v. (various pagings), 100 leaves of plates : ill. (part. col.) ; 57 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's 1/2 burgundy morocco decorated in gold.
Classification
Department