Paris, Librairie d'Art Décoratif (Armand Guérinet, ed.), 1900. Folio (40.0 x 30.0 cm). Title page, index; 28 chromolithographed plates. Quarter cloth portfolio; front board with printed title and floral vignette.

A very rare work - we found no auction records at all - illustrated by the French designer and illustrator Émile Belet (1840-1904). He was a Peintre à la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres (world famous for its porcelain), and is renowned both for his illustrated books, and for his original art, in particular vases. Boards a bit stained at edges; some minor spotting and a few creases to several lower margins; weak damp stain to the lower margin of the title/index leaf; otherwise very good, clean. Neither in Evers, Ornamentale Vorlagenwerke, nor in Schneider-Henn, Ornament und Dekoration.