Racinet (Auguste). L'Ornement polychrome. One hundred gold a - Lot 253

Racinet (Auguste). L'Ornement polychrome. One hundred gold and silver color plates containing approximately 2,000 motifs in all styles. Ancient and Asian art, Middle Ages, Renaissance, 17th and 18th centuries. Recueil Historique et Pratique. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, no date [ca. 1869]. In-folio of IV, 60 pp. 100 plates, each followed by an insert of descriptive notes, [3] pp. publisher's binding in green half-chagrin, highly ornate spine, boards in blue, black and gold percaline, gilt edges. Binding rubbed, some spotting and foxing. Also included: MANTZ (Paul). Masterpieces of Italian Painting. [...] A work containing twenty chromolithographic plates by F. Kellerhoven, thirteen woodcuts and forty culs-de-lampe and ornate letters. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, 1870. In-folio of viij, 268, [1] pp. 50 h.-t. plates. Publisher's green and gold percaline, Half-tone on p. 219 at end, without affecting the drawings on the plates, binding defects.