Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in The Mediaeval Styles.

First edition. Folio (41 x 29cm). 'The Audlsey's book offered considerable direction in the use of patterns from medieval painting and illuminated manuscripts, suggesting exactly what kind of patterns were appropriate for precise places on the walls of a room or hall.'- Beckwith. pp. viii,32, 33ff. With 36 full-page chromolithographic plates printed in Paris by Firmin-Didot. Title a little foxed, one leaf of plate description slightly proud. The orginal publisher's cloth, gilt, teg, laid down, with neat new spine & rear board, to style, a little marked but Vg. [Beckwith 50; RIBA Lib. Cat. 46; Weinreb 29, 1404].