Ornamental design, embracing The Anatomy of pattern

450 Pages·1888·15.771 MB·English

by  Lewis Foreman

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ORNAiMENTAL DESIGN,
EMBRACING
THE ANATOMY OF PATTERN.
THE PLANNING OF ORNAMENT.
THE APPLICATION OF ORNAMENT.
BY
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LEWIS DAY.
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WITH ONE HUNDRED & FIFTEEN
FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
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LONDON:
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B, T. BATSFORD, 52, HIGH HOLBORN.
1888.
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TEXT BOOKS OF ORNAMENTAL DESIGN.
THE
ANATOMY
PATTERN.
OF
BY
LEWIS
F. DAY,
AUTHOR OF 'EVERY-DAY ART,' ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
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LONDON:
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B. T. BATSFORD, 52, HIGH HOLBORN.
1887.

PREFACE.
There was a time in my own struggling for
artistic existence, when I should have been
so grateful for any practical teaching in orna-
ment, that I fancy there must be students
who will find it helpful to have set plainly
before them what I have had to puzzle out
for myself. Hence this series of Text Books
of Ornamental Design in which I have
;
amplified and illustrated the substance of
a series of Cantor Lectures delivered in
December last before the Society of Arts.
I have assumed no great amount of tech-
nical or artistic knowledge on the part of the
reader—only that he wants to know. And,
elementary as my subject is, I have taken
some pains to save him all unnecessary effort
in following my meaning.
The illustrations are to be taken
literally
as illustrations, and not by any means con-
sidered as ornamental addenda to the book.
vi Preface.
.
It is only as diagrams that they have any
claim to insertion although, as an orna-
;
mentist, I have naturally made the necessary
diagrams as interesting as under the circum-
stances was feasible.
I have tried to make each one of the
plates, as far as possible, explanatory in
itself so that from the study of them alone,
;
apart from what I have to say, a fair idea
of the construction of pattern might be
gained.
Lewis F. Day.
13, MecklenburgSquare, London, JV.C.
March
y>th, 1887.