Pattern: A Study of Ornament in Western Europe from 1180 to 1900

by Joan Evans

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First edition

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931. 435 black & white illustrations. 2 volumes. 4to, blue cloth spines somewhat faded . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. First edition. A very good copy. A scholarly history of ornament from the Gothic period to the 20th century. The patterns are treated in the context of the history of civilization, as a speculum minus of human life, darkly reflecting the web of man's

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