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Paris, l'Aventurine, 2001. Soft Cover. Foreword by Jean-Paul Midant. 228 p., 112 plates (many color); 33 cm. Since its first publication in 1856, the Grammar of Ornament has been an inspiring source for decorative artists. This is a particularly nice facsimile. A monument to Victorian style in itself, it brings together vivid images of historical and geographical variety. Fine; new from the publisher; stiff wrappers. 27546x.

Paperback / softback. New.

LIGHTNING SOURCE INC. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Van Nostrand Reinhold. GF138 1982, hardcover, goed exemplaar / good copy

Hardback. New.

Barnes & Noble Books, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good. 12x8x1. ***Please Read*** No marks on text - My shelf location - 71-b*

Dk Pub, 2001. Paperback. New. 504 pages. 6.50x5.50x1.25 inches.

Barnes & Noble Books, 1997-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Bernard Quaritch, 1910. First Thus. Portfolio. Very Good. Complete with all 112 color plates. A very good copy, disbound, housed in a custom burgundy cloth slipcase, preserving the original gilt-stamped spine and the gilt-stamped central panel of the front cover. This copy is ideal for teaching or study, as the playes can be passed around and closely compared. All the text plates have the tissue guards.

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover book in fair condition. 112 Colour Plates. Second edition, enlarged from the 1856 first edition containing 100 plates. Front board coming apart from spine, fraying to spine and wear to boards. Toning to pastedowns and ffeps. All plates present. One tear to plate LXXII, affecting approximately 1/2 inch of the image. All other plates lovely, colours vibrant. Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally, please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe, quick, and secure transaction. 10+ years in online bookselling experience.

Bernard Quaritch, March 1910. Hardcover. Good. ex library, otherwise good unmarked text; covers and spine bumped and rubbed

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. Second edition. Hardcover. Fair. Owen Jones. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. 112 Colour Plates. Second Edition, With 112 Plates, Enlarged From The 100 Plates In The First Edition (1856), In Small Folio Format (13 1/2" X 9 1/2"). Redidish brown Cloth, Beveled Edges, Gilt Lettering And Ornamentation On Spine And Front Cover, Blindstamped Graphics, All Edges Gilt, All original Binding, Spine Worn And Chipped, , Board corners a bit frayed. Pages are mostly loose - they were held in by a glued strip which has come away. All 112 plates are there with text. There are two options - rebind this by reglueing the pages or selling the individual plates as prints. International Postage About $60.

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1910.. Folio, (ii), 157, (1) pp. Chromolithographed second title and 111 fine chromolithographed plates, each with a tissue guard, showing numerous designs, a fine bright copy in the original gilt decorated maroon cloth, spine ends bumped, small hole to lower edge of upper cover, a.e.g., recently recased, a very good bright copy. First published in 1856, and then the first work of its kind, Jones brought together patterns from all over the world to form one of the major works in Victorian Design. Maclean pp122-4 - "...the masterpiece of them all..."

London:: Bernard Quaritch,, 1868.. Third edition.. publisher's gilt cloth; a.e.g.. Bookplate on pastedown; two blind-embossed private library stamps (not on any of the plates). This copy has been recased, with neat matching paper reinforcements at the (inner) hinges; some plates extend slightly more than others at the fore-edge. The plates are all clean and bright. There is some very slight use to the extremities of the cloth--much nicer than usually seen. . Folio,. Frontispiece and 111 chromolithograph plates (numbered I-C).. Additional postage applicable.

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1910 First published in 1856, this is one of the great monuments in Victorian color printing. Quaritch published subsequent editions in 1868, 1910, and 1928. Burgundy cloth, with front cover and spine stamped in gilt, expertly recased. Folio. Chromolithographic title and 111 chromolithographic plates. Top edges lightly bumped. A very good, bright copy. To us today, inundated with photographic references for almost every work of art or kind of decoration in the world, The Grammar of Ornament is still a superb picture-book: but in the 1850s it was the first time in England that anything like so many illustrations or ornament had ever been assembled in colour in on work, and certainly the first time in England that any systematic and serious reproductions in colour of historical ornament had ever been printed, apart from Owen Jones's Alhambra, and works by Digby Wyatt and Noel Humphreys…Owen Jones's book was by far the most ambitious in scope yet attempted…" (McLean,… Read More

Day and Son,, 1856. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Folio . No spine Brown boards present. Many pages loose i believe its complete 152pp

London: Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen, 1856.. Large folio (57 x 38 cm; 22.5 x 15 inches). Publisher's three quarter dark maroon morocco and brown cloth, with large gilt red morocco title label on upper board. Letterpress title in red and black, additional chromolithographed title and one hundred chromolithographed plates (a few tinted, the majority in brilliant colors). Joints and extremities worn, with cracking to upper joint (with 20 cm narrow separation down from top), thumb-size surface snag in cloth on lower board, 9 x 6 cm light angular discoloration at top of front board, two 20th century ownership inscriptions on front endsheet, occasional offset from plates to tissue guards, tissue guard for plate 46 torn and detached, rare modest foxing and/or finger smudging to the margins of an occasional plate and more often to tissue guards, rear endsheets heavily foxed, with consequent foxing to plate 100, which also has a shallow tidemark in the top margin toward the gutter. Withal,… Read More

London: Day and Son, 1856.. FIRST EDITION. Folio. (57 x 38 cm). Near contemporary half red morocco over complementary red cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt decorated compartments, marbled endpapers and edges. Ccomplete with its fine fine chromolithographic frontispiece and 100 chromolithographic plates* illustrations in the text. 12 x 8 cm. offset from small sheet of paper (?) at plate IV, very occasional minor spotting, upper joint neatly professionally repaired at extremities generally a remarkably clean copy in an attractive binding. The finest of the great chromolithographic books of the period, undertaken following the success of the architectural and ornamental museum in the Crystal Palace in Sydenham. Jones created the framework for a characteristically nineteenth-century style of ornament, and inspired William Morris, the Arts and Crafts movement, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. * Bound in a slightly unconventional order with the plates for each separate section… Read More