[Rarebooks] FS: Owen Jones THE GRAMMAR OF ORNAMENT with 112 chromolithographic plates

[Charles Agvent]

               JONES,  Owen.  THE GRAMMAR OF ORNAMENT. London:  Bernard
          Quaritch  1910  (1928).  Small  folio (9"  x  13")  bound  in
          publisher's  handsome  gilt-decorated red cloth.  Illustrated
          with 112  chromolithographic plates with explanatory text and
          numerous   text  illustrations.  Included   are  sections  on
          ornament  of  savage  tribes,  the  Egyptians,  Assyrian  and
          Persian,  Greek, Roman, Arabian, Byzantine, Turkish, Persian,
          Indian,  Hindoo,  Chinese,   Celtic,  Medieval,  Renaissance,
          Elizabethan,  Italian, and leaves and flowers of nature. This
          re-issue  of  the 1910 edition, which consisted of  remainder
          sheets  from  the 1865 edition with a new title page, is  the
          last to  be  printed  in   glorious  chromolithography.  Some
          cracking  of  hinges  but very tight; former  owner  name  on
          front endpaper.  Several  plates  detached,  but  bright  and
          fresh, outside and in.                                $500.00

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