Excerpt from The Evolution of Architectural Ornament
Published first as a series of articles in "The Architectural Record" of New York, these notes on the Evolution of Ornament are now presented in volume form, and a few words of apology are consequently necessary; for illustrations which were prepared for a magazine have not in every case been capable of arrangement in a book either sequenquentially or in close proximity to the text which they refer. For most of them, whether photographs or pencil sketches, the author is himself responsible, but for others he has to thank friends, including Messrs. R. G. Lovell, A.R.I.B.A., W. A. Rigg, A.R.I.B.A., M. F. Surveyor, F. Clemes and F. R. Somerford, A.R.I.B.A., while he is also indebted to Mr. Batsford, the publisher of, and Mr. R. H. Carden, A.R.I.B.A., his collaborator in that volume, for permission to reprodace certain illustrations from "Ornamental Details of the Italian Renaissance."
If this book contains, of deliberation, any novel features, these consists mainly in its general arrangement, classifying architectural ornament as to its bases, found either in vegetable or animal forms of life, or in straight or curved lines; and in the tracing of Gothic forms almost wholly to nature, those of the thirteenth century representing spring, followed in regular succession by those summer, autumn and winter, alike in England and on the Continent. The appendix chapter on some capitals which the author sketched in Alexandria in 1911 is also, it is believed, quite new, except that a paper on the subject has been read before the Society of Architects.
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