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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 257328, member: 56&quot;]What is the nature of the plates?&nbsp; Are they chromolithographs? How large are they?</p><p><br /></p><p>This looks like a German equivalent of Owen Jones&#039; &quot;Grammar of Ornament&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Books of this type were popular in the late 19th and early 20th C.&nbsp; I found an example online identified as 3rd revised edition 1899.&nbsp; It&#039;s also described as 2 vols: the first text with minimal illustration, the second primarily plates.&nbsp; That&#039;s not all that unusual for heavily illustrated reference books of the period.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Google translation of the reference I found includes the phrase &quot;112 full panels (= 224 pages with one side, often with several detailed representations)&quot;, which only makes sense to me if they are fold-outs.&nbsp; If that is true, they would be big.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your cover includes the phrase &quot;Erganzung zu Eyth und Meyers&quot;, which means &quot;compliments of...&quot;&nbsp; That seems a strange choice of words.&nbsp; I wonder if this might have been promotional material for a new edition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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