[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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