This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ... not for the accompanying grapes and tendrils: but for that evidence it might just as well pass for maple, or cranesbill, or hibiscus leaf. Such corroborative evidence of identity is often needed. In the process of adaptation to ornamental conditions the unmistakable character of a plant is not uncommonly eliminated. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ... not for the accompanying grapes and tendrils: but for that evidence it might just as well pass for maple, or cranesbill, or hibiscus leaf. Such corroborative evidence of identity is often needed. In the process of adaptation to ornamental conditions the unmistakable character of a plant is not uncommonly eliminated. One is perplexed, for example, by the Italian wood-carving on p. no. According to its tendrils it should be a vine, but its fruits are more like hops. In Gothic ornament one has as I said, frequently to take the vine-leaf on faith, failing grapes, and more particularly tendrils (p. 59 and Plate 29). The grapes are sometimes as remote from nature as the leaves, and the scale to which the bunches are reduced often removes them 83. Conventional vine, from Toledo. still further from recognition. It is possible that the mulberry is sometimes mistaken for the vine. Many a conventional vine leaf (as for example on p. 111) is much more like the leaf of the white mulberry of Lombardy I than it is like a vine-leaf; whilst the compact little bunches of diminutive berries look occasionally much more like mulberries than any grapes one has seen. In the border on p. 112 they might almost be blackberries. It is possible also in Gothic work to con found them with the berryspike of the wild arum. It is only our familiarity with similar convent i on s which enables us to understand that the Go t hicoM oresque foliage on p. 113 stands for the vine. For growth the Moorish sculptor has simply branched a spiral line. His vineleaves would answer at least as well for bryony leaves, and his berries would do as well for bryony berries. His reason for bunches of 84, Moorish vine. three was doubtless symbolic. He has not bothered himself about tendrils at all. Probably he...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. 8vo. Blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine slightly loose. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 750grams, ISBN:
