Dresser (Christopher) - Principles of Decorative Design. [With a Preface.]

Principles of Decorative Design. By Christopher Dresser. [With a Preface.]. Second edition, 4to, vi, [2], 167, [4] pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates, 27cm, Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris and New York, n.d. (1875).

Two inserted chromolithograph plates in fancy colours, 184 figures in the text. Graine brown cloth with bevelled edges, decorated with black strapwork and gilt-blocked TRUTH, BEAUTY, POWER with a device on the front cover, spine titled in gilt. Dark green endpapers, Nottingham Government School of Art prize for 1878 label at the front. A very good to fine copy.