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Plants of 1917 vol 5 Fall/Win
by Hageney,Wolfgang
1985. Plants of 1917 vol 5 Fall/Win by arranged and edited by Wolfgang Hageney, Belvedere, paperback, 1985, 30 large color plates from a set of 5 Japanese Folding Books printed with wooden blocks on special rice paper with up to 15 colors.
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$15.97
Ornaments
Half Morocco. Marbled Boards. . Very Good. Oblong, 18.5 by 26.5 cm. 40 chromolithographic color plates of designs. The designs are in line with Christopher Dresser, and there can be no question that they date to the aesthetic period. There are ornamental bands, kaleidoscope-ish centerpieces, Celtic and Gothic influenced diapers, etc. Geometric patterns suffuse the entirety, and we would add, there are no literal figurative elements in any of the designs. Some design elements might be inspired...
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$450.00
![[ORNAMENT]. Katalog Der Ornamentstichsammlung Der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin. TOGETHER WITH: Katalog der Architektur- und Ornamentstichsammlung Teil 1 (all published) - Baukunst England](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/887/829/1326829887.0.b.jpg)
[ORNAMENT]. Katalog Der Ornamentstichsammlung Der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin. TOGETHER WITH: Katalog der Architektur- und Ornamentstichsammlung Teil 1 (all published) - Baukunst England
by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Kunstbibliothek Berlin
Berlin: Ad 1. Ad 2: Verlag Bruno Hessling, 1977. First Edition. Together 2 vols. Ad 1: xv, [5], 782, [2] pp. With 77 b/w illustrations in the text. Attractively (and very sturdily) bound in contemporary red quarter morocco over glazed red boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, all original wrappers bound in (sic!) -- Ad 2: 183 pp. With 43 illustrations in the text. Original publisher's orange cloth. Original edition. B.H. Breslauer copy of the justly famous catalogue of the vast collection of...
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$1000.00
Collected volume of ornament prints
by BERAIN, Jean I, artist [and others] WOLFF, Jeremias, publisher
Augsburg: Jeremias Wolff, 1724. Broadsheets (378 x 301 mm). [58] leaves of engravings by various German engravers, mainly after Jean Bérain. Platemarks av. 34 x 28 mm. Condition: Fine impressions; old traces of horizontal folds to plates, occasional small marginal dampstain in last few plates, lower margin of last plate strengthened and verso stained, a few platemarks cut close or shaved, occasional pale stain in gutters, not touching images, one plate with a few tears in gutter. Stab-stitched in...
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$6500.00
Grammar of Ornament - Moresque No 2
by Owen Jones (1809-1868)
1868. Chromolithograph. From Owen Jones' 'Grammar of Ornament', 1868. Welshman Owen Jones first published his monument to design, the Grammar of Ornament, in instalments for subscribers. For his lushly illustrated plates, Jones's design motifs drew from nineteen different cultures including the ornament of Oceania, ancient Greece and Rome, Byzantium, Renaissance Italy, and Moorish Spain. Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, the Grammar remained an influential source for the production...
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A$165.00
The Grammar of Ornament
by Jones, Owen (1809-1874)
London : Studio Editions, 1986. Studio Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; The Studio library of decorative art. Physical description; 157 pages, 112 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 34 cm. Notes; Photographic reprint of the original ed.: London : Day, 1856. Includes bibliography. Contents; Facsim. of: ed. published London : Day and Son, 1856....
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$115.00
Treasury of Ornament
by Dolmetsch,Heinrich
1989. Treasury of Ornament by Heinrich Dolmetsch, Studio Editions, cloth, dj, 1989 reprint of 1898 book, 184pp, 85 plates, each plates comes with text.
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$17.92
The Grammar of Ornament
by Jones, Owen
Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, 1868-01-01. second. Hardcover. Very Good. Rebound in modern Moroccan burgundy leather. All edges gilt. Gilt spine. 6 raised bands. Fine binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Chromolithographic plates. 157 pages illustrations, One hundred and twelve plates. 35 cm. <br><br> Owen Jones was a London-born architect and designer of Welsh descent. A versatile architect and designer, he was also one of the most influential design theorists of the nineteenth...
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$1176.00
Design Book of Gibitz Mariska
by Mariska, Gibitz
Hungary. Paper laid on boards. Good. Oblong folio, measuring 16 by 10.5 inches, or 41 by 27 cm. N.d. Circa early 20th century. 27 original watercolor patterns or designs by Gibitz Mariska, and most of the leaves are signed by him. Nothing is known of Mariska, but from these drawings of ornament and design it is clear he was a talented designer, and his eclecticism captured the catholic, and sophisticated tastes that prevailed in fin-de-siecle Central Europe prior to the devastation, moral and...
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$1500.00
Student's Design Notebook plus Additional Watercolored Designs on Separate Sheets
by Lebrun, S
Hardcover. Cloth spine. Marbled paper pasted onto boards. . Good. Well executed, impressive assortment of designs done by a capable, advanced French student. N.d., circa 1900. Folio, 35.5 by 22.5 cm. Notebook with 41 pages of content, plus 21 loose sheets with watercolored designs, filling out pen-and-ink or penciled outlining. Notebook pages ruled vertically down middle, with French descriptive text on left, designs described on right. 28 pages of the notebook have more or less fully realized...
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$975.00
The Grammar of Ornament
by Jones, Owen
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. Ring_bound. vg to fine. Folio. [(1) 28pp., (1) 101 leaves (plates). Stitched blue leather ring binder portfolio with handwritten label on cover. Title page printed in red an black with publisher's device plus chromolithographic title page. All text pages and plates are expertly separated and placed into plastic portfolio sleeves, chromolithographs ready to be framed. Missing 11 plates. "The Grammar of Ornament" is by any standards a remarkable book. When it was first...
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$450.00
The Grammar of Ornament: Illustrated by Examples from Various Styles of Ornament
by Jones, Owen
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1910. 1910 edition by Quaritch, first published in 1856. Illustrated with 112 plates plus other designs, almost all in full color. Large book, 13.25" tall and 1.75" thick, red cloth over beveled boards printed in gilt, no dustjacket. Externally fair, internally good. Significant bleached area to lower corners of covers, additional speckling, edgewear, good hinges, sound text block with some foxing to outer edges and endpapers, pages clean with some very light foxing...
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$287.99
The Grammar of Ornament: Illustrated by Examples from Various Styles of Ornament: One Hundred and Twelve Plates
by Jones, Owen
London: Studio Editions, 1986. Cloth, 157 pages, colour illustrations; 34 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.
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$49.50
Grammar of Ornament - Hindoo No 2
by Owen Jones (1809-1868)
1868. Chromolithograph. From Owen Jones' 'Grammar of Ornament', 1868. Welshman Owen Jones first published his monument to design, the Grammar of Ornament, in instalments for subscribers. For his lushly illustrated plates, Jones's design motifs drew from nineteen different cultures including the ornament of Oceania, ancient Greece and Rome, Byzantium, Renaissance Italy, and Moorish Spain. Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, the Grammar remained an influential source for the production...
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A$165.00
2,000 Designs, Forms, and Ornaments
by Estrin,Michael
1970. 2,000 Designs, Forms, and Ornaments by Michael Estrin, Wm Penn, paperback, circa 1970, first signature in missing (32 pages), idea and reference book with 122 plates, primitive through moden.
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$3.20
Grammar of Ornament - Celtic No 2
by Owen Jones (1809-1868)
1868. Chromolithograph. From Owen Jones' 'Grammar of Ornament', 1868. Welshman Owen Jones first published his monument to design, the Grammar of Ornament, in instalments for subscribers. For his lushly illustrated plates, Jones's design motifs drew from nineteen different cultures including the ornament of Oceania, ancient Greece and Rome, Byzantium, Renaissance Italy, and Moorish Spain. Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, the Grammar remained an influential source for the production...
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A$165.00
Recueil D'Ornemens
by Cauvet, Gilles-Paul
Paris: for the Author, 1777. Gilt red morocco (David; hinges rubbed), large corner fleurons, spine and all edges gilt, silk marker. SUPERB COPY OF THIS SPLENDID CLASSICAL REVIVAL PATTERN BOOK, informed by recent archaeological discoveries in Italy. Created for the king's brother, these extravagant designs "demonstrate [Cauvet's] tremendous range and understanding of classical ornament" (Vasemania). The number and content of leaves differ between copies. That offered here is among the most complete...
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$10925.00
Grammar of Ornament - Hindoo No 3
by Owen Jones (1809-1868)
1868. Chromolithograph. From Owen Jones' 'Grammar of Ornament', 1868. Welshman Owen Jones first published his monument to design, the Grammar of Ornament, in instalments for subscribers. For his lushly illustrated plates, Jones's design motifs drew from nineteen different cultures including the ornament of Oceania, ancient Greece and Rome, Byzantium, Renaissance Italy, and Moorish Spain. Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, the Grammar remained an influential source for the production...
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A$165.00
The Grammar of Ornament: A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts
by Jones, Owen
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Hardcover. VG+/VG. Black boards with gilt design. Color-illustrated dust jacket with brick red and orange lettering. 496 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Originally published in 1856 by Day & Son, London.
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$40.00
