Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
1873
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE GREAT PATTERN BOOK OF ORNAMENT & DECORATION. OWEN JONES GRAMMAR OF ORNAMENT, ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES FROM VARIOUS STYLES OF ORNAMENT, ONE VOLUME impL. 470. One hundred and fwelve Plates, with English letterpress, EXTRA CLOTH, SILT EDGES. ; Published £5. 5s, now offered for £4. 4s. 1865 This great, and to practical Artists absolutely necessary work, is now offered at the above extremely moderate price ; 112 fine large plates, in gold and colours, with descriptive text, at the rate of about six-pence each. If any work is to spread Art Taste amongst the British Artizans, this hook will do it. ‘At this moderate price “The Grammar of Ornament,” is brought within the reach of Artists, Architects, and their Assistants and Pupils, Designers, Art-workmen, and Students of every branch of Ornamental Art. This work also addresses itself to a still larger class of the public who, without haying professional need of its teachings, have yet an enlightened sympathy with the beautiful, and would be glad to possess, as an aid to the practice of Nluminating and other accomplishments of a like elegant character, or as a decoration to their drawing-room table, this record of*the art of so many countries and periods. The “ Grammar of Ornament” has not only been adopted as a class-book in all the Govern- ment schools in this country, but also by the principal schools of the Continent, where the impor- _ tance to Art of this invaluable collection, and of the principles explained in the text by which Mr. Owen Jones has_sought to guide the student to its use, has been fully recognised and honoured. List of Plates of Owen Jones’s Grammar of Ornament. E28 Sold separately from 1s to 2s each. Cuar.I. Ornament of Savage Tribes, | Plate ; Plate | | Cuap. V. Pompeian Ornament. 1 Ornaments from Articles belonging to | 23 Collection of Borders from different Edifices - various Savage Tribes, exhibited in the in Pompeii. : 24 Ditto Pilasters and Friezes United Service and British Museums. C ‘ i. ” 2 Ditto ditto. | 25 Mosaics from Pompeii and the Museum at 3 Ditto ditto. Naples. Cuav. VI. Roman Ornament. 26 Roman Ornaments from Casts in the Crystal Palace. 27 Ditto from the ‘“* Museo Bresciano.”’ Cuap. VIL Byzantine Ornament. 28 Carved Byzantine Ornaments, Cuap. Il. Egyptian Ornament. | 4 The Lotus and Papyrus, types of Egyptian | ornament. Ditto, with Feathers and Palm-branches. 6 Capitals of Columns, showing the varied | applications of the Lotus and Papyrus. ; . 6* Ditto ditto. | nel gre ret Fae 7 Various Cornices formed by the Pendent | <= one cs 30 Mosaics. Lotus. | 8 Ornaments from Mummy Cases in the British Museum and the Louvre. | 9 Geometrical Ornaments from Ceilings of Cuap. VII. Arabian Ornament. 31 Arabian Ornaments of the Ninth Century from Cairo. 32 Arabian Ornaments of the Thirteenth Tombs. C from Cai 10 Ornaments with Curved Lines from Ceilings cL Om RU . Bf -Porshet _ 83 Ditto ditto ——_ not soid separately 11 Various Ornaments from Ceilings and fe Forhion of re i Iluminated Copy of the Walls of Tombs Koran. Vy : 35 Mosaics from Walls and Pavements from Cusp. Il. Assyrian and Persian Houses in Cairo. é Ornament. - Cuapr. IX. Turkish Ornament. 12 Painted Ornaments from Nineveh. 36 Ornaments in Relief from Mosques, Tombs, 13 Ditto. : and Fountains at Constantinople. 14 Carved Ornaments from Persepolis, and | 37 Painted Ornaments from the Mosque of Sassanian Ornaments from Ispahan and Soliman at Constantinople. Bi-Sutoun. 88 Decoration of the Dome of the Tomb of Cuap. IV. Greek Ornament. Soliroan I. at Constantinople. 15 The various Forms of the Greek Fret. Cuar. X. Moresque Ornament from 16 the Alhambra. 17 39 Varieties of Interlaced Ornaments. 18 pene from Greek and Etruscan Vases | +0 Spandrils of Areas; 19 in the British Museum and the Louvre. 41 Lozenge Diapers, 20 \ 41* Ditto ditto. 21 42 Square Diapers ‘ 22 Painted Greek Ornaments from the Temples | 42* Ditto ditto. and Tombs in Greece and Sicily. 42+ Ditto ditto,