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Elements d'orfevrerie : divises en deux parties de cinquante feuilles chacune

Etched throughout. The plates are chiefly by Jean Jacques Pasquier, some by Jean Charles Baquoy · Divided in 2 pts. priced at 12 livres apiece, each with 50 plates · First leaf: title - 2nd leaf: dedication to Machault, controlleur general des finances - 3rd leaf: Germain's Avis - 4th leaf: Table des desseins. Second pt. has special added title leaf · Plates 70-72, 78, 81-82, 86 depict designs by Jacques Roettiers, Jr · Numbering of plates 51 & 52 corrected in MS from 15 & 25 · Copy 1 bound with: Livre d'ornemens / Pierre Germain (Paris : Chez l'auteur, 1751) · Copy 1 bound in mottled calfskin; triple fillets in gilt along margins of boards, fleurons at corners; spine gilt tooled, abbreviated title on maroon label; page edges mottled blue; holes from earlier stab sewing. Signature on t.p. of Berbigie. On verso of plate 99 is careful pencil copy in reverse of plate 100, facing. Unidentified etched designs for neoclassical candlesticks mounted on versos of plates 66-71, 90-91; signature on verso of 91 (C. Racine?). Additional folded candlestick design bound facing plate 71 · Copy 2 has "et ches la ve. de F. Chereau rue St. Jacques aux 2. piliers d'or" added in the plate below imprint

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