William Francklyn Paris — Decorative Elements in Architecture

New York and London, Jone Lane Company; John Lane, The Bodley Head , 1917. Cloth. A smart work in the very rare cloth dustwrapper comprising observations upon decorative and ornamental qualities in architecture, richly illustrated with photographs and illustrations. With chapters on the history and development of ornamentation, wrought iron, painted glass and decorative elements.Penned by William Franklyn Paris, an Honorary Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Lecturer on Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.With a scarce cloth dust wrapper.Profusely illustrated with nearly one hundred illustrations, including a frontispiece. In the publisher's original full cloth binding, with a cloth dust wrapper. Externally very smart, slight bumping to the tail of the spine, otherwise very minor wear. Dust wrapper has some bumping to the head of the spine, but is otherwise in excellent condition, with slight wear and the occasional mark only. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown, inscription to the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.