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
Published:
London : Day and Son, 1856.
Description:
1 v. (various pagings), 100 leaves of plates : ill. (part. col.) ; 57 cm
Credit:
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.
Binding:
Publisher's 1/2 burgundy morocco decorated in gold.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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