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Creator:
Racinet, A. (Auguste), 1825–1893
Title(s):
Polychromatic ornament. : One hundred plates in gold, silver, and colours, comprising upwards of two thousand specimens of the various styles of ancient, oriental, and mediaeval art, and including the renaissance and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The subjects selected and arranged, in historical order and in a form suitable for practical use, / by A. Racinet. With explanantory text, and a general introduction, translated from the original french.
Additional Title(s):
L'ornament polychrome. French
Published/Created:
London : Henry Sotheran and Co. 136, Strand ..., 1873.
Physical Description:
[8], 58, [202] p., C leaves of plates : col. ill., plans ; 41 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A N 100
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
ART JK85 +869RG: 2 v. in 3.
Illustrations after Ch. Goutzwiller, P. Woeiriot, and Janssen.
Initials, head- and tail-pieces.
T.-p., printed in red and black.
"Chiswick Press:-C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane."
All Plates lithographed in France.
Subject Terms:
Decoration and ornament.
Sotheran (Henry) and Co. -- Publisher.
Whittingham, C. -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1877.
Chromolithographs -- 1877.
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