[Ornaments] Owen Jones. Grammaire de l'Ornement

Illustrée d'exemples pris de divers styles d'ornement. Cent douze planches. London/ Paris, Day and Son/ Cagnon, n.d. (1865), (2),161,(1) p., with chromolithographic frontispiece and 112 chromolithographic or tinted lithographic plates numbered up to 100 (12 plates with *), contemporary half morocco, all edges gilt, folio.

Here and there slightly foxed; leather with some rubbing and slightly faded spine. Influential standard work on all possible kinds of ornaments: "Savage tribes", Egyptian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arabic, Moorish, Indian, Chinese, medieval, renaissance, Italian and even examples from nature. The beautiful, bright colours characteristic of chromolithography come into their own in this work. The work appeared in English, German and French from 1856. See extensively on the English-Welsh architect Owen Jones (1809-1874): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones_(architect).