A richly illustrated detailed history of Western architectural ornamentation. Contents: Introductory comments; Primitive and savage ornament; Egyptian ornament; Chaldea and Assyria; West Asiatic ornament: Phrygia, Lydia and Persia; Pre-Hellenic ornament: Aegean and Asiatic; Greek Ornament I and II; Etruscan and Roman ornament I and II; Pompeiian ornament; Early Christian or Basilican ornament; Byzantine ornament; Romanesque ornament: I. Italian and French and II. Anglo-Norman, German, Spanish and Scandinavian; Gothic ornament: structural; Gothic carving and industrial and accessory arts; Particular schools of Gothic ornament: I. French and English and II. German, Spanish, Italian; Index.