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ORNAMENT. A Group of 5 Volumes as Listed.

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ORNAMENT. A Group of 5 Volumes as Listed.
ORNAMENT. A Group of 5 Volumes as Listed. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. ***The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles by Alexander Speltz - 3 Portfolios (1914-1915) Leipzig: Baumgartner. Tipped-in colour plates, many highlighted with gold & silver, with Table of Contents and Text in each Part, in original portfolios with ties (library cloth tape backstrips). Part 1 - Antiquity, 44 (of 60) plates. Part 2 - Middle Ages, complete with 60 plates. Part 3 - Modern Times, complete with 60 plates. ***Ornament - Two Thousand Decorative Motifs in Colour, Forming a Survey of the Applied Art of All Ages and All Countries, with an Introduction and Catalogue by H. Th. Bossert (1924) 1st Edition, London: Ernest Benn Limited. Complete with 120 colour plates, some mounted, binding & hinges tight, in a library binding with original cover laid over. ***Explanatory Text and Additional Plates to Lewis Gruner's Specimens of Ornamental Art by Emil Braun (1850) London: Thomas M'Lean. Folio in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, binding & hinges tight.