JONES, OWEN. The Grammar of Ornament. London: Day and Son 1856. Large folio, 558 x 368mm. (21 13/16 x 14 1/2in.), late nineteenth-century red morocco gilt, blue morocco gilt doublures, board edges and turn-ins gilt, blue watered silk liners, gilt edges, discreetly rehinged, corners restored, some scuffing to covers and lower board edges, slight wear to raised bands, fore-edges of plates 84 and 86 cropped with loss to plate number of plate 86, 5-inch marginal repaired tear to fol. 1 of Chapter VIII, a few other short marginal tears or repairs to text leaves, corners of plates 94-100 bent . Additional chromolithographed title, 100 mostly chromolithographed plates (a few tinted lithographs) by Francis Bedford showing several thousand examples of ornament, wood-engraved vignettes. Ray England 228 ("the culminating work of Jones's career [p. 144]... not only a notable illustrated book, but a great book tout court .")
JONES, OWEN. The Grammar of Ornament. London: Day and Son 1856. Large folio, 558 x 368mm. (21 13/16 x 14 1/2in.), late nineteenth-century red morocco gilt, blue morocco gilt doublures, board edges and turn-ins gilt, blue watered silk liners, gilt edges, discreetly rehinged, corners restored, some scuffing to covers and lower board edges, slight wear to raised bands, fore-edges of plates 84 and 86 cropped with loss to plate number of plate 86, 5-inch marginal repaired tear to fol. 1 of Chapter VIII, a few other short marginal tears or repairs to text leaves, corners of plates 94-100 bent . Additional chromolithographed title, 100 mostly chromolithographed plates (a few tinted lithographs) by Francis Bedford showing several thousand examples of ornament, wood-engraved vignettes. Ray England 228 ("the culminating work of Jones's career [p. 144]... not only a notable illustrated book, but a great book tout court .")
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