Designs for Gothic ornaments & furniture, after the ancient manner, for ecclesiastical and domestic purposes, for the use of architects, and workers in metal, stone, wood, etc., etc
A pattern book of Gothic Revival ornament drawn by John W. B. Gibbs and published by George Bell in London in 1854 for architects, masons, carvers and metalworkers copying medieval detail for churches and houses. The plates are shaded line engravings of repeating borders "quatrefoil and cusped arcading, crockets, curling foliate crestings and stylised flowers " drawn large and flat, ready to be lifted as tiling repeats, rule borders or frame edges.
