NATURE IN ORNAMENT

DAY, Lewis F.  NATURE IN ORNAMENT.      

London: B.T. Batsford, 1896. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, xxiii, (i), 260 pages, 123 plates. Third edition.

"An Enquiry into the Natural Element in Ornamental Design & a Survey of the Ornamental Treatment of Natural Forms," with one hundred twenty-three plates and one hundred ninety-two in-text illustrations showing aesthetic designs.  This is part of a series, Text Books of Ornamental Design.  Day designed the endpapers for this book, interlacing initials for his name, LFD, and the publisher's monogram, BTB.  A very good, bright copy.

 

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