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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 68

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tangential curvature, which we find in Egyptian ornament, are equally observedhere, but much less truly,—rather, as it were, traditionally than instinctively. Nature is not followedso closely as by the Egyptians, nor so exquisitely conventionalised as by the Greeks. Nos. 2 and 3,Plate XIII., are… … Assyrian. 29

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