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
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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.
Subject Terms:
Decoration and ornament. | Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms. | Decoration and ornament -- Victorian style. | Royal Institution of Great Britain -- Stamp.
Tymms, W. R. (William Robert), lithographer. | Armytage, James Charles, 1802-1897, engraver. | Sawkins, Miss, illustrator. | Edwards, Mary Ellen, 1838-1934, illustrator. | Julyan, Mary E., active 1862-1866, illustrator. | Stock, Miss, illustrator. | McGregor, Sarah, active 1862-1885, illustrator. | Collins, Elizabeth L., active 1862-1869, illustrator. | Day & Son, publisher. | Savill and Edwards, printer. | Bone & Son bookbinder. | Walter, Paul F., donor.