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[ORNAMENTATION] RACINET (Albert Charles Auguste) Compilation of: - “L'ornement polychrome,” Librairie Firmin Didot frères, Paris, n.d. (circa 1880). A large folio volume illustrated with one hundred plates in gold and silver, containing approximately 2,000 motifs in a variety of styles, including ancient and Asian art, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the 17th and 18th centuries. (Spine and binding damaged, missing section on the spine, foxing, not collated) - "L'ornement polychrome," Second Series, 1885. Ten issues bound together. (Bindings damaged, plate edges creased, not collated) In a compartmentalized wooden box.