- Written by
- Meyer, Franz Sales, German, 1849 - 1927
- Published by
- E.A. Seemann, German, founded 1858
- Owned by
- Abele, Julian Francis, American, 1881 - 1950
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- ink on paper (fiber product) and cardboard
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (a): 8 9/16 × 5 7/8 × 1 9/16 in. (21.7 × 15 × 4 cm)
- H x W x D (b): 8 11/16 × 5 13/16 × 1 9/16 in. (22 × 14.8 × 4 cm)
- H x W (c): 8 1/2 × 5 3/8 in. (21.6 × 13.6 cm)
- Description
- A hardback edition of Hanbuch der Ornamentik (Handbook of Ornament), written by Franz Sales Meyer, and owned by artist and architect Julian F. Abele.
- 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 printed
- Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, North and Central America
- Classification
- Books and Published Materials
- Type
- books
- Credit Line
- 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.
- Object number
- 2021.95.5a-c
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




