Encyclopédie historique, archéologique, biographique, chronologique et monogrammatique des beaux-arts plastiques, architecture et mosaïque, céramique, sculpture, peinture et gravure
An 1873 Paris encyclopedia of the fine arts, architecture, ceramics, sculpture, painting and engraving, compiled by Auguste Demmin for art students, collectors and historians of decorative arts. Its pages are dense engraved catalogues of furniture types, stands, and ornamental friezes, numbered individually for reference. A designer could draw on the sharply inked chair profiles, table legs, carved panels and fantastic animal frieze for historical furniture and ornament references.
