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The leading principles in composition of ornament of every period, from The grammar of ornament

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A236

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Type of record: Book

Title: The leading principles in composition of ornament of every period, from The grammar of ornament

Other titles: Principles of ornament; Ornament

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A236

Creator(s): Jones, Owen (1809-1874)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Wilkins, John C (Printer); Moore, Francis G (Former owner); Royal Institute of British Architects (Sponsoring body); Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain) (Issuing body)

Publisher: Printed for the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; Printed by John C. Wilkins

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1878?]

Language: English

Size and medium: 54 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722698

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019794490405181

Description

Title page vignette.


"Owen Jones Prize, awarded by the Council of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, M.DCC.LXXVIII"--Cover.


Leeds University Library copy at A236: Print and MS. award presentation note on page facing title page: Owen Jones Prize, awarded by the Council of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, trustees of the Owen Jones Memorial Fund, to Francis G. Moore for a design executed and submitted by him for examination in the year 1885. H.J. Wood, Secretary, no. 44, 29 day of Oct.br 1885.

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A236: Red goatskin binding, gold-tooled, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A236: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORO/50.

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