The grammar of ornament (oversize)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The grammar of ornament (oversize)
Classmark: Bedford Collection K018
Creator(s): Jones, Owen (1809-1874)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, Francis (1816-1894) (Artist); Waring, J B (1823-1875) (Contributor); Westwood, J O (1805-1893) (Contributor); Wyatt, Sir M Digby (1820-1877) (Contributor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Day & Son (Lithographer)
Publisher: Published by Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields
Publication city: London
Date(s): MDCCCLVI [1856]
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 preliminary leaves, [106] pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/739223
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019995097405181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
First edition of The grammar of ornament, a global and historical design sourcebook published by the English-born Welsh architect Owen Jones, one of the most influential design theorists of the 19th century.
The 100 chromolithographic plates were issued only once, in this large folio edition, printed from the original stones. Reprint editions are smaller in format, with less brilliant designs.
Added lithograph title page [frontispiece] in colours.
With contributions by J.B. Waring, J.O. Westwood, and M.D. Wyatt.
Ornament of savage tribes -- Egyptian ornament -- Assyrian and Persian ornament -- Greek ornament -- Pompeian ornament -- Roman ornament -- Byzantine ornament -- Arabian ornament -- Turkish ornament -- Moresque ornament from the Alhambra -- Persian ornament -- Indian ornament -- Hindoo ornament -- Chinese ornament -- Celtic ornament -- Mediaeval ornament -- Renaissance ornament -- Elizabethan ornament -- Italian ornament -- Leaves and flowers from nature.
Indexed in: McLean, R. Victorian book design and colour printing,
Indexed in: Friedman, J.M. Colour printing in England, 1486-1870,
Indexed in: Muir, P. Victorian illustrated books,
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K018: contemporary half sheep, green cloth, gold tooled decorative design inlay on front cover and gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K018: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/49.
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