<I>Hanbuch der Ornamentik</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1890
name: label: Written by
content: Franz Sales Meyer, German, 1849 - 1927
label: Published by
content: E.A. Seemann, German, founded 1858
label: Owned by
content: Julian Francis Abele, American, 1881 - 1950
notes: label: Description
content: A hardback edition of Hanbuch der Ornamentik (Handbook of Ornament), written by Franz Sales Meyer, and owned by artist and architect Julian F. Abele.
label: Description
content: A small, thick hardback book (a). The cover (b) and first page (c) are detached from the spine and there is no back cover. The cover has a brown background illustrated in a black ink design depicting a round wreath framed by joint connected metal bars, representative of architectural building materials. In large black print it reads, from top to bottom: [SEEMANN’S / Kunsthandbücher / FRANZ SALES MEYER / HANDBUCH DER / ORNAMENTIK / LEIPZIG / E.A. SEEMANN]. The detached back cover (b) features wallpaper-like geometric print in dark ink. A detached blank page (c) from the book features a graphite inscription, “3.75” in its top left corner, a red ink stamp “A.H. BIELER,”, and is signed in black ink by Julian Francis Abele, “Julian F. Abele”. A small black square in the bottom left corner of the page contains publishing information which reads, [BÜBEL & DENCK / LEIPZIG]. The reverse of the one of the beginning interior pages of the book (a) features a large graphite drawing. The last and indexed page of the book is numbered at 614.
place: label: Place printed
content: Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Architecture
label: Topic
content: Craftsmanship
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Ornamentation
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Peter Cook in honor of Julian Francis Abele and Julian Abele Cook, Sr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.95.5a-c
objectType: label: Type
content: books
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product) and cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a): 8 9/16 × 5 7/8 × 1 9/16 in. (21.7 × 15 × 4 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (b): 8 11/16 × 5 13/16 × 1 9/16 in. (22 × 14.8 × 4 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (c): 8 1/2 × 5 3/8 in. (21.6 × 13.6 cm)