Analysis of Ornament. The Characteristics of Styles: An Introduction to the Study of the History of Ornamental Art

The second edition of Wornum's illustrated analysis of the history of ornamental art. The second edition of this work, first published four years prior.This is an outline of a course of sixteen lectures originally prepared for the government schools of design in the years 1848, 1849 and 1850.This work discusses the styles of ornamental art through the ages, and focuses on ornament in general, Greek ornament, Egyptian ornament and much more.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and twenty-six plates, one of which is folding. Collated, complete.With a contemporary inscription to a front free endpaper. Blind stamp to title page head. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with loss of cloth to back strip head. Front hinge strained, and somewhat tender. Inscription to a front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Tape repair running the length of the gutter of the title page. Blind stamp to title page head. Pages clean and bright. Good.