Zweite Ausgabe; gegenüber der ersten Ausgabe von 1856 etwas verkleinert und um 12 Tafeln vermehrt. – „All, therefore, that I have proposed to myself in forming the collection which I have ventured to call the Grammar of Ornament, has been to select a few of the most prominent types in certain styles closely connected with each other, and in which certain general laws appeared to reign independently of the individual peculiarities of each“ (O. Jones). – „A complete and unabridged full-color edition of the classic sourcebook on ornamental design. First published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. Its inspiration came from pioneering British architect and designer Owen Jones (1809–1874), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly illustrated in vivid chromolithographic color. Jones made detailed observations of decorative arts on his travels in Europe, the Middle East, and in his native London, where he studied objects on display at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 and at local museums. His aim was to improve the quality of Western design by changing the habits of Victorian designers, who indiscriminately mixed elements from a wide variety of sources. Jones’s resulting study is a comprehensive analysis of styles of ornamental design, presenting key examples ranging from Maori tattoos, Egyptian columns, and Greek borders to Byzantine mosaic, Indian embroidery, and Elizabethan carvings. At once splendidly Victorian and insistently modern, The Grammar of Ornament celebrates objects of beauty from across time periods and continents, and remains an indispensable sourcebook today“ (Princeton University Press zur Neuausgabe 2016). – „Like the Crystal Palace, for which Jones himself designed the interior color scheme, this book is a riotous cornicopia of hue and form, a heroic attempt to come to grips with the entire world of things. The Grammar of Ornament is an object of beauty in its own right“ (Tim Barringer, author of Reading the Pre-Raphaelites). – Einband etwas berieben, Kapital geringf. beschädigt, Textteil papierbedingt etwas gebräunt, gutes Exemplar.

Schlagwörter: Farblithographie, Ornament, Ornamentik, Platebooks

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