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About the Author

David Batterham has been an antiquarian bookseller in London since 1965. He specializes in books and journals on the graphic arts, ornament, fashion, and caricature with an emphasis on work from France and Spain.

Reviews

...a magnificent encyclopedia of adornment.
*The Wall Street Journal*

...an invaluable source book that presents beautiful patterns dating from antiquity to the 19th century.
*Elle Decoration*

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