Dresser, Christopher, The art of decorative design , 1862
- Title(s):
- The art of decorative design : with an appendix, giving the hours of the day at which flowers open (the floral clock) : the characteristic flowers of the months (both indigenous and cultivated), of all countries, and of the diversified soils / by C. Dresser, Professor of ornamental art and botany in the Crystal Palace Sydenham ; of botany applied to the fine arts in the department of science and art, South Kensington Museum ; and of scientific botany in the Polytechnic Institution, and the London and St. Mary's Medical Colleges.
- Published/Created:
- London : Day and Son, lithographers to the Queen, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1862.
London : Printed by Savill and Edwards, printers, Chandos Street, Covent Garden, [1862] - Physical Description:
- xi, [1], 241, [3] pages, xxviii leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsNK1510 .D75 Copy 1Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon FundView by request in the Study Room [Request]
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Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/581576
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Plates lithographed by William Robert Tymms; after Christopher Dresser. Other illustrations by James Charles Armytage; after Miss Sawkins, Mary Ellen Edwards, Mary E. Julyan, Miss Stock, Sarah McGregor, and Elizabeth L. Collins.
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 bound in publisher's original gilt-stamped red cloth. Binder's ticket: Bone and Son, 76 Fleet Street, London.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in publisher's original gilt-stamped red cloth. Inscribed: With the authors comps. Sept. 1862. Embossed stamp: Royal Institution of Great Britain. - Subject Terms:
- Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms.Decoration and ornament -- Victorian style.Decoration and ornament.Royal Institution of Great Britain -- Stamp.
- Form/Genre:
- Chromolithographs -- 1862.
Wood engravings -- 1862.
Lithographs -- 1862. - Export:
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