2. Auguste Racinet, 1825–1893. L'Ornement Polychrome: one hundred plates in gold, silver, and colours, comprising upwards of two thousand specimens of the various styles of ancient, oriental, and mediæval art, and including the Renais-sance and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / the subject selected and arranged, in historical order and in a form suitable for practical use, by A. Racinet, with explanatory text, and a general introduction. Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, Fils & Cie., [1869-1873].
Style Byzantin: Mosaïques, Incrustations, Nielles et Peintures, pl. XXXIII

Chromolithograph on cream wove paper; printed by Lemercier & Cie, Paris.

Auguste Racinet, an art historian and designer with a particular interest in ornamentation and costume, devoted his career to the publication of art scholarship. This book, along with his seven volume Le Costume Historique, published in 1888, are among his greatest contributions to the historical record of the decorative arts.

From the library of Knight Cheney Cowles, November 24, 1970.

"Beauty and the Book: 19th and Early 20th Century Folios on the Decorative Arts," Case 2, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, February 28-May 7, 2012