EXAMPLES OF ORNAMENT IN EVERY STYLE Selected chiefly from Works of Art in the British Museum, The Museum of Economic Geology, The Museum of Ornamental Art in Marlborough House, and The New Crystal Palace. Drawn from Original Sources, by Francis Bedford, Thomas Scott, Thomas Macquoid, and Henry O'Neill, and Edited by Joseph Cundall.

CUNDALL, JOSEPH, edited by.

Published by Bell and Daldy, 186 Fleet Street., 1855

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Large 4to. 10 x 13.75 inches. [2] + 5+ [3] + 24 pp. letterpress. Bound in half morocco over printed pictorial boards repeating title page decoration. Extremities with edge wear and darkening. Some foxing inside, mainly confined to blank recto sides of plates; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 25 lithograph plates, including chromolithographs and title. Decorated by ornament on lithographed title and by publisher's device on title page with editor's initials on verso. A beautiful collection of ornaments from history, including Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Pompeian, Byzantine, Irish, Alhambresque, Gothic, Renaissance, Cinque-Cento, Elizabethan, Indian and Persian. Edited by Joseph Cundall (1818-95), pioneer photographer and publisher of children's books. Francis Bedford (1816-94) was an architectural draughtsman and lithographer, also becoming a pioneer photographer. A very scarce title. ART / LITERATURE DESIGN ARTS- DECORATIVE ARTS 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED ART / LITERATURE.

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• Title: EXAMPLES OF ORNAMENT IN EVERY STYLE Selected chiefly from Works of Art in the British Museum, The Museum of Economic Geology, The Museum of Ornamental Art in Marlborough House, and The New Crystal Palace. Drawn from Original Sources, by Francis Bedford, Thomas Scott, Thomas Macquoid, and Henry O'Neill, and Edited by Joseph Cundall.
• Publisher: Bell and Daldy, 186 Fleet Street.
• Publication Date: 1855
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good