Nature in Ornament

1892·30.5 MB·English

by  Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910

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TEXT BOOKS OF ORNAMENTAL DESIGN.
By LEWIS F. DAY.
Price Three-and-Sixpence each, bound in Cloth.
Introductory Volume.
SOME PRINCIPLES OF EVERY-DAY ART.
With numerous Illustrations in the text.
THE ANATOMY OF PATTERN.
With Thirty-five full page Illustrations.
THE PLANNING OF ORNAMENT.
With Thirty-eight full page Illustrations.
THE APPLICATION OF ORNAMENT.
With Forty-two full page Illustrations.

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TEXT BOOKS OF ORNAMENTAL DESIGN,
NATURE ORNAMENT
IN
BY
LEWIS DAY,
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AUTHOR OF * EVERY-DAY ART.'
WITH PLATES AND
1J3 102
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.
LONDON:
BATSFORD, HIGH HOLBORN.
B. T. 52,
1892.-
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PREFACE.
The scope of my subject explains, and
justifies I hope, a volume exceeding in bulk
the three former text-books of this series
rolled into one.
That scope is perhaps sufficiently expressed
in the words " Nature in Ornament." It ma}-,
however, be as well to say here that my aim
has been, not so much to show the obvious
adaptability of plant form to the purpose of
ornament (which has been done already, more
than once, and more or less adequately), as
to demonstrate the natural development of
ornament from nature, to show its constant
relation to natural form, and to deduce from
the practice of past-masters of the craft of
design something like principles, which may
put the student in the way ofturning nature
to account in ornament of his own.
Lewis F. Day
13, MecklenburgSquare, London,
September 1th, 1891.
NOTE.
Ihave to thank ?nyfriendMr. Walter Cranefor
myfrontispiece^ Mr., William Morris for Plate 87,
and Mr. Heywood Sumnerfor Plate 56 and illus-
tration 49. Iam further indebtedto various gentle-
me7i forpermission to reproduce designs beloiiging to
them; to theproprietors of the ArtJojirnaV for
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Plate 22 to Mr. Alfred Carpenterfor Plate 58;
; &
to Messrs. Erskijie Beveridge Co. for illustra-
tion III; to Mr. Edmund Evans for illustration
191 ; to Messrs. Heaton^ Butler, e^ Bayne for
illustration 66 to Messrs. Jeffrey &= Co.forPlates
;
14, 23, 37, 38, 72, 86, and illustrations 132, 135,
142 ; to Messrs. Maw &= Co. for Plates 39 and
102; to Messrs. Turnbull 6^ Stockdalefor Plates
48, 61, and 106; and to Mr. John Wilson for
Plate 89 and illustrations 133 and 134.
L. E. D.