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Title(s):
The art decorator : designs in colours for the amateur and art worker. First series / with an introduction by Wyke Bayliss.
Additional Title(s):
Dekorative Vorbilder. English
Published/Created:
London : Electrotype Company, 1890.
Physical Description:
1 portfolio ([6] pages, XXX, 30 leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color) ; 36 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NK1160 .D3 1890+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
An English edition of the Dekorative Vorbilder.
BAC: British Art Center copy bears prize label of the Durham College of Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Art Department, awarded to John Dick, for work exected in modelled design, 1893.
“The work is intended specially to assist the amateur and the art-decorator, by placing before them designs which may be copied, enlarged, amplified, or varied ... For the hard-working decorators of our provincial towns--from whom something more is expected now-a-days in the matter of taste than used to suffice for the man with the paint-pot--there will be much in the pages of this book to admire, and practically to serve their purpose."--Introduction.
Subject Terms:
Decoration and ornament -- Periodicals.
Form/Genre:
Prize books.
Dick, John -- Bookplate.
Contributors:
Bayliss, Wyke, Sir, 1835–1906, writer of introduction.
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