Plates accompanied by leaves with descriptive letterpress and illustrations not included in pagination; Includes index. Bottom of plates: Verlag v. Jul. Hoffmann, Stuttgart.
Title within colored ornamental border; "Exhibited: Gothic Revival and Chromolithography in Nineteenth Century Books on Ornament, organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library"
Design; Decoration and ornament; British Museum; Geological Museum (Great Britain); Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
Printed by G. Barclay, Castle St., Leicester Square; Each leaf of plates accompanied by guard leaf and leaf of descriptive letterpress; Bookplate of Arthur Magniac. "F. Bedford, lith." and Day & Son, Lith.rs. to the Queen." "...drawn from original...
