Features designs from the world of people -- their work, play, legends and stories they have invented, art objects they have made, landscapes chosen by the artist for their aesthetic appeal. Children, ladies, actors, peasants and patriarchs depicted.
These superb ornaments in the form of columns, plinths, borders, friezes and cornices are from period books meant to be used by artists and craftsmen as well as architects. Dragons and gargoyles abound -- the very stuff of Victorian Gothic.