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Floriated ornament: a series of thirty-one designs

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852 · 1849 · London, H. G. Bohn · 33 pictures

A pattern book of thirty-one plates by the Gothic Revival architect A. W. N. Pugin, published in London by H. G. Bohn in 1849 for architects, church decorators and designers of textiles and wallpaper. Each lithographed plate flattens named plants into symmetrical sprigs and crosses in flat red, blue, green and gold, with Latin captions below—ready-made motifs for borders, tiles and repeats.

Decoration and ornament

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