How long does it take to read A Handbook of Ornament with 300 Plates Containing About 3,000 Illustrations of the Elements, and the Application of Decoration to Objects?
Franz Sales Meyer
A Handbook of Ornament with 300 Plates Containing About 3,000 Illustrations of the Elements, and the Application of Decoration to Objects by Franz Sales Meyer takes about 10 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 3 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1890. 548 pages, about 150,700 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Decoration and ornament, Art objects, Design, decorative, History
