This excellent collection of historic decorative ornament contains 3,000 examples ranging from the cultures of the Greeks and Romans through the Victorians: chairs, thrones, crowns, heraldic emblems, altars, armor, architecture, and more.

A handbook of ornament with 300 plates containing about 3,000 illustrations of the elements, and the application of decoration to objects.

Reproduces nearly three thousand geometric and natural motifs used to decorate jewelry, furniture, manuscripts, vases and other articles from the rise of Greek civilization to the Victorian era