° ° Owen Jones - Grammar of Ornament. Illustrated by Example...

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° ° Owen Jones - Grammar of Ornament. Illustrated by Examples of Various Styles of Ornament, one hundred folio plates, drawn on stone by F. Bedford and printed in colours by Day and Son, First Edition. pictorial title (in gold & colour) and printed title (in red & black), num. engraved text illus. 19th cent. half morocco & cloth, large morocco label on upper cover with pictorial gilt decoration, gilt- lettered direct on spine with gilt ruling and decoration, gilt edges, atlas folio. Day and Son, 1856.

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leather worn on corners, head/tail of spine & along joints, some cloth pieces missing on covers (not affecting label); markedly soiled on e/ps., some soiling pictorial title (mostly marginal) & on printed title, intermittently a little in text, plates mostly clean (some guards taking foxing etc), marked soiling gutter at plt. 46; various pagination; nb. these plates in monochrome (grey/black/beige) 26-28, 31-33, 49, 56, 63, 74-76, 81-84, 91-97, as are 99 & 100; binding by Leighton, Son and Hodge (with their ticket)

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10th Jun 24 at 9:30am BST