Suggestions in design : three thousand years of ornaments, styles, motifs : more than 1000 original drawings / by John Leighton ; with a new introduction by Edward Lucie-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leighton, John, 1822-1912.

Contributor:

Lucie-Smith, Edward.

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decoration and ornament.

Penn Provenance:

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Physical Description:

9, 101 pages, 18 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm

Manufacture:

Wisbech, Cambs. : Printed by Balding & Mansell Ltd.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Paddington Press : [Distributed by Grosset & Dunlap], [©1977]

Contents:

Savage and early tribes

Egyptian ornamentation

Assyrian ornamentation

Greek ornamentation

Greek & Etruscan ornamentation

Pompeian ornamentation

Chinese ornamentation

Japanese ornamentation

Indian ornamentation

Persian ornamentation

Moorish or Saracenic ornamentation

Byzantine ornamentation

Gothic ornamentation

Ornamental metal work

Geometric ornament

Inlays, Labyrinths and Diapers

Blazonry and Heraldic ornament

Renaissance ornamentation

English Renaissance ornamentation

French Renaissance ornamentation

Floral ornamentation

Figures, Animals, Chimeras, and Trophies

Letters and Monograms

Miscellaneous.

Notes:

Originally published in 1852-3 with only 47 plates. Republished doubled in size by Blackie in 1880.

Local Notes:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.

Malgieri Collection copy is a Review copy with press release laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Leighton, John, 1822-1912. Suggestions in design.

ISBN:

0448226154 :

9780448226156

OCLC:

2968401