This day is published, in quarto, No. I of the Encyclopedia of ornament by Henry Shaw
Subtitle: prospectus.
Publisher: William Pickering
Published: 1836
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Shaw, Henry, -- 1800-1873.
Notes: Prospectus for the first part of Henry Shaw's Encyclopedia of ornament, "submitted as a specimen of the manner in which it will be continued ... Each part will contain three engravings". Offered for sale in medium quarto (small paper) at 1s. or Imperial quarto (large paper) at 2s6d, with the plates coloured.

Contains advertisements for some of Shaw's other works, completed and in progress, and reviews dated 1834 and 1835.

MASS copy: Originally laid in McLean's copy (McLean Q 0266) of Examples of ornamental metal work. London, 1836.