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Title
The grammar of ornament : illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament. / Owen Jones
Imprint
New York, N.Y. : Dorling Kindersley Pub., 2001.
Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction
745.4 Jon
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Available
Edition
1st American ed.
Description
504 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 17 cm.
Note
Includes indexes.
Indexed In:
Library Journal 11/01/1998
Publisher's Weekly 07/27/1998
Summary
Presents more than 2,350 engravings covering a range of ornamental styles from Ancient Egypt and Greece to Imperial China and Elizabethan England with analysis.
Subject
Decoration and ornament -- Themes, motives.
Decoration and ornament -- History.
ISBN
0789476460