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Though trained as a Botanist , by 1857 he was writing a series of articles in '' Art Journal '' until the title "Botany as Adapted to the Arts and Art Manufactures." He later published ''The Art of Decorative Design'' ( 1862 ), ''The Development of Ornamental Art'' (1862), and ''Principles of Design'' ( 1871 -72). His design work included carpets, silver and electroplate, wallpaper, pottery and glass, and metalwork. He was a director of the Linthorpe Pottery and was one of the first to import Japanese goods into Britain.


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  • Judith Flanders. ''Inside the Victorian Home: a Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England''. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.