{"id":395,"date":"2006-04-20T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=395"},"modified":"2007-02-22T01:17:37","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T01:17:37","slug":"the-grammar-of-ornament-by-owen-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/04\/20\/the-grammar-of-ornament-by-owen-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owen Jones&#8217; landmark study of the world&#8217;s decorative history was published in 1856. I have a facsimile edition from the 1980s and it&#8217;s a beautiful volume even besides its value as a reference work. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illuminated-books.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">illuminated-books.com<\/a> has made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illuminated-books.com\/books\/grammar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">high-res scans of the pages<\/a> available for free. They do the same for a number of other books, including other titles by Owen Jones and his contemporaries William Morris and Walter Crane. Crane&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illuminated-books.com\/books\/illustration.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Decorative Illustration<\/a> is recommended for anyone interested in the history of book design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illuminated-books.com\/books\/grammar.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/grammar.jpg\" id=\"image396\" alt=\"grammar.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owen Jones&#8217; landmark study of the world&#8217;s decorative history was published in 1856. I have a facsimile edition from the 1980s and it&#8217;s a beautiful volume even besides its value as a reference work. Now illuminated-books.com has made high-res scans of the pages available for free. They do the same for a number of other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/04\/20\/the-grammar-of-ornament-by-owen-jones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4],"tags":[2426,549,1188],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","tag-owen-jones","tag-walter-crane","tag-william-morris"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-6n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}