“Every one who employs practical lettering will be grateful for ‘Alphabets, Old and New.’ Mr. Day has written a scholarly and pithy introduction, and contributes some beautiful alphabets of his own design.”--_The Art Journal._ “A practical resumé of all that is to be known on the subject, concisely and clearly stated.”--_St. James’s Gazette._ “It goes without saying that whatever Mr. Batsford publishes and Mr. Day has to do with is presented in a good artistic form, complete, and wherever that is possible, graceful.”--_The Athenæum._ A HANDBOOK OF ORNAMENT.--With 300 Plates, containing about 3,000 Illustrations of the Elements and Application of Decoration to Objects. By F. S. MEYER, Professor at the School of Applied Art, Karlsruhe. Second English Edition, revised by HUGH STANNUS, F.R.I.B.A., Lecturer on Applied Art at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington. Thick 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top. Price 12_s._ 6_d._ Net 10_s._ “A library, a museum, an encyclopædia, and an art school in one. To rival it as a book of reference, one must fill a book case. The quality of the drawings is unusually high, the choice of examples is singularly good.... The work is practically an epitome of a hundred works on Design.”--_Studio._ “The author’s acquaintance with ornament amazes, and his three thousand subjects are gleaned from the finest which the world affords. As a treasury of ornament drawn to scale in all styles, and derived from genuine concrete objects, we have nothing in England which will not appear as poverty-stricken as compared with Professor Meyer’s book.”--_Architect._ “The book is a mine of wealth even to an ordinary reader, while to the student of art and archæology it is simply indispensable as a reference book. We know of no one work of its kind that approaches it for comprehensiveness and historical accuracy.”--_Science and Art._ THE HISTORIC STYLES OF ORNAMENT.--Containing 1,500 examples from all countries and all periods, exhibited on 100 Plates, mostly printed in gold and colours. With historical and descriptive text translated from the German of H. DOLMETSCH. Folio, handsomely bound in cloth, gilt. Price £1 5_s._ net. This work has been designed to serve as a practical guide for the purpose of showing the development of Ornament, and the application of colour to it in various countries through the epochs of history. The work illustrates not only Flat Ornament, but also many DECORATIVE OBJECTS, such as METAL-WORK, POTTERY AND PORCELAIN, LACE, ENAMEL, MOSAIC, ILLUMINATION, STAINED GLASS, JEWELLERY, BOOKBINDING, &c. showing the application of Ornament to Industrial Art. _A small remainder, just reduced in price._