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If any work is to spread art-taste amongst artisans, this book will do it. "At this moderate price The Grammar of Ornament' is brought within the reach of artists, architects and their assistants and pupils, designers, art-workmen and students of every branch of Ornamental Art. It also addresses itself to a still larger class of the public, who, without having professional need of its teachings, have yet an enlightened sympathy with the beautiful, and would be glad to possess, as an aid to the practice of Illuminating and other accomplishments of a like elegant character, or as a decoration to their drawingroom table, this record of the art of so many countries and periods. "The Grammar of Ornament' has not only been adopted as a class-book in all the Government schools in this country, but also by the principal schools of the Continent, where the importance to art of this invaluable collection, and of the principles explained in the text by which Mr. Owen Jones has sought to guide the student to its use, has been fully recognized and honored." Its title "Grammar" correctly expresses its necessity and indicates its great usefulness. Painters, Decorators, Artists and Designers generally will find it the most important pattern and reference book extant. A decorator who can afford to buy books at all should possess this "Grammar of Ornament" first and foremost. FOR SALE BY J. SABIN & SONS, THE TRADE SUPPLIED. 84 Nassau Street, New York. VANDERBURGH, WELLS & CO. East Corner Fulton and Dutch Streets, NEW YORK, MANUFACTURE AND DEAL IN Type, Cabinets, Cases, Presses And Printers' Materials of All Kinds, AT LOWEST PRICES. 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