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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Very large book.. Year 1954. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Alexander Speltz was a German designer and architect. In 1904 he had published The Styles of Ornament which was expanded for the second edition two years later. The intention was to represent the entire range of ornament from pre-history to the mid- nineteenth century. The present volumes with a total of 180 plates is a survey of polychrome ornament covering antiquity (including Egypt the Middle East Greece the Etruscans the Hellenistic period and Rome) the middle ages across Europe and the modern period which is essentially the Renaissance and early Baroque. The plates are attractive reproductions of Speltz’s own paintings and cover architecture furniture and all the decorative arts such as floor mosaics stained glass metalwork the book arts tapestry and wall painting. A wonderful encyclopaedic collection. (OS)