Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of sixty plates from Esquisses Décoratives, originally published by Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, ca. 1902. The original preface by Gustave Geffroy has been newly translated from the French by Diane Goullard, www.FrenchAndEnglish.com.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Binet, René, 1866–1911, creator. | Geffroy, Gustave, 1855–1926, writer of preface.
Title: Decorative sketches : architecture and design influenced by nature in early 20th-century Paris / Rene Binet.
Description: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 2017. | “This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of sixty plates from Esquisses Décoratives, originally published by Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, ca. 1902. The original preface by Gustave Geffroy has been newly translated from the French by Diane Goullard.”
Identifiers: LCCN 2017022952| ISBN 9780486816685 (paperback) | ISBN 0486816680
Subjects: LCSH: Binet, René, 1866–1911—Themes, motives. | Decoration and ornament—France—Paris—Art nouveau. | BISAC: ARCHITECTURE / Decoration & Ornament. | ART / European.
Classification: LCC NK1449.Z9 B562 2017 | DDC 745.092—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017022952
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