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Polychromatic ornament :one hundred plates in gold, silver, and colours, comprising upwards of two thousand specimens of the various styles of ancient, oriental, and mediµval art, and including the renaissance and the seventeenth and eigtheenth centuries /the subjects selected and arranged, in historical order and in a form suitable for practical use, by A. Racinet ; with explanatory text, and a general introduction, translated from the original French.

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Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-252425

Description

58 p., [102] leaves, 100 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 39 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Decoration and ornament.
Color in architecture.

Originator

Racinet, A. (Auguste), 1825-1893.

Publication

London : H. Sotheran

Description

58 p., [102] leaves, 100 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 39 cm.

Notes

Translation of Lórnement polychrome.
Descriptive text on leaf preceding each plate.

Call Number

Perry NK1530.R32 1877

Variant Title

Ornement polychrome.

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