The Beauty of Flowers in Field and Wood containing the natural orders or families of British Wild Plants with moral teachings illustrated designed to make botany simple and field and wood rambles instructive and agreeable John Thoedore Barker Bath Binns and Goodwin - no date [1852] London Whittaker and Co
unusual contemporary paper mache binding with a hand painted cover
Today we present Persian decorative art styles found in Owen Jones’s
classic work The
Grammar of Ornament, published by Bernard
Quaritch in London in 1868. The book features 120 chromolithographic plates of design examples from across time, geography, and culture. In the
preface, Jones describes 37 propositions that are “general principles in the
arrangement of form and colour, in architecture and the decorative arts, which
are advocated throughout this work.” The plates we are highlighting today
showcase decorative art patterns found in illuminated manuscripts, tile work,
and architecture.
