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A precursor to the Ornaments of Grammar by Owen Jones Ancient Spanish Ballads: Historical and Romantic translated with notes by JG Lockhart Esq. Illustrated by William Allen, David Roberts, William Simson, Henry Warren, CE Aubrey and William Harvey. The book cover design, boarders and ornamental vignettes are by Owen Jones the Welsh Architect who later created The Ornaments of Grammar(1856). Illustrated endpapers. Published by John Murray, London, 1842. Second edition. Quarto green cloth binding. (victorianweb.org/art/design/books/cooke18) Front hinge cracked and then repaired. Printed by the Vizetelly Brothers. Chromolithographs and illuminated with gold. Beautiful!