Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, cabinet-makers and artistic locksmiths as well as also for technical schools, libraries and private study
A survey handbook of historical ornament by Alexander Speltz, translated by David O'Conor and published in New York in 1910 for architects, carvers, cabinetmakers, locksmiths, and design students. Plates group line engravings by period and craft: pilaster panels, acanthus friezes, grotesques, strapwork, wrought-iron grilles, and furniture legs, drawn flat and numbered, ready for tracing, pattern repeats, or border stock.
