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Bouchot, Henri,1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C.(Edward Clements),1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton,1848-1897 · London, H. Grevel & Co. · leaf 205
d decorations-full of suppleness. It may be believed, besides, that he didnot remain behind his confreres in figure composition orallegorical and Divine emblems. His art did not go far enoughto throw off the errors of the existing school ; he was Tcontentnot to copy any one and to make his works… … Fig. in,—Tailpiece of Sebastien Leclerc for the Promenade de St. Germain. Such were, for example, the vignettes of the Histoire dtTzirenne, where the heads of the chapters, the ornamentedletters, and the tailpieces, harmoniously blend with each other, andmake the book, although a little heavy as to…
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