![[Ornaments]. Racinet, A. (ed.). l'Ornement polychrome. (...) Recueil historique et...](https://gcp-la8-storage-cdn.lot-art.com/public/upl/8/Ornaments-Racinet-A-ed-lOrnement-polychrome-Recueil-historique-et_66296a8476f15-full-08308200_1713990277-66296a85144a9.jpg "[Ornaments]. Racinet, A. (ed.). l'Ornement polychrome. (...) Recueil historique et...")
[Ornaments]. Racinet, A. (ed.). l'Ornement polychrome. (...) Recueil historique et...
[Ornaments]. Racinet, A. (ed.). l'Ornement polychrome. (...) Recueil historique et pratique. (Premier series). Paris, Firmin-Didot Frères, Fils et Cie., n.d. (±1885), 3rd ed., 1 (of 2) vols., (4),IV,60,(6) textp., 100 chromolithogr. plates printed in colours, gold and silver, each with accompanying descriptive text leaf, loose as issued in orig. giltlettered cl. portfolio, folio.
- Vol. 1 only; textlvs. w. some foxing; textlvs. occas. outer edge frayed.
= Colas 2471; Vicaire VI, p.944; S. Durant, Ornament (1986), p.22: "Racinet's work was clearly modelled on Jones' Grammar of Ornament, but actually surpassed it in the splendour of its chromolithographic plates. L'Ornement Polychrome was the most extensive published compendium of decoration and was so successful that a second volume was published in 1883".
Dolmetsch, H. Der Ornamentenschatz. Ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen. Stuttg., J. Hoffmann, 1887, 1st ed., (6)p., 85 (chromo)lithogr. plates, partly printed in gold, w. accomp. descriptive text lvs., loose as issued in contemp. hcl. portfolio, folio.
- Textlvs. sl. foxed.
AND 2 others on ornaments: D. GUILMARD, La connaissance des styles de l'ornamentation. Histoire de l'ornament et des arts qui s'y rattachement (Paris, n.d., 4th ed., 42 lithogr. plates, loosely inserted in orig. clothbacked lithogr. portfolio, folio) and MUSTER-ORNAMENTE aus allen Stilen in Historische Anordnung (Stuttg., n.d., title-p. and 303 woodcut plates, without binding, folio).
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[Ornaments]. Racinet, A. (ed.). l'Ornement polychrome. (...) Recueil historique et pratique. (Premier series). Paris, Firmin-Didot Frères, Fils et Cie., n.d. (±1885), 3rd ed., 1 (of 2) vols., (4),IV,60,(6) textp., 100 chromolithogr. plates printed in colours, gold and silver, each with accompanying descriptive text leaf, loose as issued in orig. giltlettered cl. portfolio, folio.
- Vol. 1 only; textlvs. w. some foxing; textlvs. occas. outer edge frayed.
= Colas 2471; Vicaire VI, p.944; S. Durant, Ornament (1986), p.22: "Racinet's work was clearly modelled on Jones' Grammar of Ornament, but actually surpassed it in the splendour of its chromolithographic plates. L'Ornement Polychrome was the most extensive published compendium of decoration and was so successful that a second volume was published in 1883".
Dolmetsch, H. Der Ornamentenschatz. Ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen. Stuttg., J. Hoffmann, 1887, 1st ed., (6)p., 85 (chromo)lithogr. plates, partly printed in gold, w. accomp. descriptive text lvs., loose as issued in contemp. hcl. portfolio, folio.
- Textlvs. sl. foxed.
AND 2 others on ornaments: D. GUILMARD, La connaissance des styles de l'ornamentation. Histoire de l'ornament et des arts qui s'y rattachement (Paris, n.d., 4th ed., 42 lithogr. plates, loosely inserted in orig. clothbacked lithogr. portfolio, folio) and MUSTER-ORNAMENTE aus allen Stilen in Historische Anordnung (Stuttg., n.d., title-p. and 303 woodcut plates, without binding, folio).
