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Author: Racinet, Auguste
Title: Polychromatic Ornament. One Hundred Plates in Gold, Silver, and Colours...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Henry Sotheran & Co.
Date Published: 1873
Description:

[8], 58 pp. + 100 chromolithograph plates, interleaved with descriptive letter press. (Folio) 39.5x27.5 cm (15½x10¾"), original rust cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and black. First Edition.

A masterpiece of 19th-century chromolithography. The plates present more than 2000 motifs and patterns, printed by Firmin Didot of Paris.

Corners and spine ends frayed, light rubbing, library sticker on top of spine, some rippling along spine gutters; front hinge split and spine coming away from binding, library bookplate on pastedown, library stamp on title page, a few dampstains to front matter, very good.