Excerpt from Ornamental Design: Embracing the Anatomy of Pattern, the Planning of Ornament, the Application of Ornament<br><br>In the preface to the first edition of the Anatomy Of Pattern, I explained how the recollection Of my own want Of some practical direction in the first steps towards orna mental design, had led me' to think, that there must be students who would find it helpful to l have set before them plainly what I had pain fully to puzzle out for myself.<br><br>The call for a second edition leads me to the gratifying conclusion that my text-book did actually fill a vacant place on the student's book-shelf.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.