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Classic sourcebook of spectacular royalty-free design collages, featuring over 1,500 decorative elements and motifs from major cultures in history through the 19th century, from Asia and Africa to Europe and the Americas. Adapted from jewelry, illuminated manuscripts, weapons, tiles, carved wood panels, ceilings, inlay, hardware, ceramics and more.
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Full-Color Picture Sourcebook of Historic Ornament - Auguste Racinet
Copyright © 1989 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.
Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.
This Dover edition, first published in 1989, contains all 120 color plates from Racinet’s L’Ornement Polychrome, deuxième série, originally published by the Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris (see Publisher’s Note for longer title and further bibliographical details). The original French text is here omitted, being replaced by new captions, Publisher’s Note and List of Illustrations in English, all prepared specially for the present edition. The Arabic numbering of the plates is also a new feature.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Racinet, A. (Auguste), 1825–1893.
[Ornement polychrome. English]
Full-color picture sourcebook of historic ornaments : all 120 plates from L’ornement polychrome.
Series II / Auguste Racinet.
p. cm.
Translation of: L’Ornement polychrome, deuxième série.
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