Copyright © 1989 by Dover Publications, Inc.

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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 C^ie, 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.

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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.

9780486155487

I. Color decoration and ornament. I. Title.

NK1548.R3313 1989
745.4—dc20

89-11969
CIP