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The grammar of ornament (1868)

Jones, Owen, 1809-1874, Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823-1875, Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893, Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877, Bernard Quaritch (Firm), publisher · London : Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly · leaf 347

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ose pupil he hadbeen during many years. The general characteristics of the style of ornament prevalent during thefirst half of the seventeenth century, and which served as an induction into what is generally knownas Louis XIV. work, cannot be better studied than in the apartments of Marie de… … Panel for a Ceiling, from a Design by Le Pautre. Leaving for awhile the subject of sculptured Italian and French Ornament, it may be well toadvert to that of painted; the more especially as for a short time, during which a great degree of zealfor the preservation of old Eoman vestiges of…

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