Principles of Decorative Design / Fourth Edition

Transcriber's Notes:
Archaic syntax and punctuation and inconsistent spelling were retained.
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Principles of Decorative Design.
Christopher Dresser, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.E.B.S., etc.;
Author of The Art of Decorative Design, Unity in Variety, etc.
FOURTH EDITION.
Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.: LONDON, PARIS & NEW YORK.
MY object in writing this work has been that of aiding in the art-education of those who seek a knowledge of ornament as applied to our industrial manufactures.
I have not attempted the production of a pretty book, but have aimed at giving what knowledge I possess upon the subjects treated of, in a simple and intelligible manner. I have attempted simply to instruct.
The substance of the present work was first published as a series of lessons in the Technical Educator . These lessons are now collected into a work, and have been carefully revised; a few new illustrations have been inserted, and a final chapter added.
As the substance of this work was written as a series of lessons for the Technical Educator , I need not say that the book is addressed to working men, for the whole of the lessons in that publication have been prepared especially for those noble fellows who, through want of early opportunity, have been without the advantages of education, but who have the praiseworthy courage to educate themselves in later life, when the value of knowledge has become apparent to them.