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Its date is probably circa 1765. To conclude this cursory account of a style, the examples of which are exceedingly numerous, it may be said that it began to be cultivated in the "thirties, " (when it was cotemporary with a lighter kind of Jacobean) ; that it was quite the vogue in the "fifties;" at its height in the "sixties;" and that it fell in rapid decadence, about 1770. BOOK-PLATE OF ELIZE GULSTON. Circa 1765. 87 THE LATER GEORGIAN (FESTOON) STYLE. HIS style, also denominated by various p...eople as " Wreath and Ribbon, " "Wreath and Spray, " might as appro- priately be termed "Urn, " or "Spade, " or better still, (to balance the "Chippendale" ap- yaujuu T BOOK-PLATE OF THE HATFIELD HOUSE LIBRARY. Engraved circa 1790. 88 English Book-plates. Pellation, 1 ) " Adams " style. It is a " neat and chaste " decorative mode which came in, no doubt, as a reaction from the extravagance, the tormented BOOK-PLATE OF THE REV. W. BARROW, LL. D. Engraved by Thornthwaite, 1789. Dishevelment into which Rococo art had drifted in its moribund days.

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