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

Numbering of plates 51 & 52 corrected in MS from 15 & 25.Plates 70-72, 78, 81-82, 86 depict designs by Jacques Roëttiers, Jr.First leaf: title - 2nd leaf: dedication to Machault, controlleur général des finances - 3rd leaf: Germain's Avis - 4th leaf: Table des desseins. Second pt. has special added title leaf.Divided in 2 pts. priced at 12 livres apiece, each with 50 plates.Etched throughout. The plates are chiefly by Jean Jacques Pasquier, some by Jean Charles Baquoy.Mode of access: Internet.Copy 4 has Germain's MS signature at foot of title, pt. 1, indicating first issue. "Auec priuilege du Roy" also appears in MS on the title of pt. 1, but it appears in the plate on title of pt. 2. Each plate is hand-stamped C.P.R. Plate 36 is a cancel. Bound in at end are 5 unidentified etchings depicting 2 hanging lamps and 3 candelabra. Binding: goatskin, mottled in lozenge pattern, faint pattern pricked in blind on both boards; spine gilt tooled, abbreviated title on red label; page edges red; holes from earlier stab sewing.Copy 3 comprises text leaves and plates from a collotype facsimile, perhaps Edouard Rouveyre's Paris ed. of ca. 1889. Both pts. of the original from which the copy was made are stamped throughout: Bibliothèque Impériale Est; and a second stamp appears on the title leaves: Acquisition no. 1961. These stamps identify the copy as that of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Estampes Le-54-4. Pt. 1 of this copy is first issue, with Germain's signature on the title. Pt. 2 is a later issue, however, with "et chés la ve. de F. Chereau rue St. Jacques aux 2. piliers d'or" added to the title. The collotypes are tipped onto loose sheets of stock 27.5 x 19.5 cm; some bear property stamp of the Parisian jewelers A. Risler & Carré. Now in clamshell box covered in buckram.Copy 2 has "et chés la ve. de F. Chereau rue St. Jacques aux 2. piliers d'or" added in the plate below imprint on title of pt. 1, indicating a later issue. The addition is not present on the title of pt. 2. It apparently refers to the widow of François Chéreau II (Geneviève-Marguerite, née Chéreau, active as print seller 1755-1768), rather than to that of François Chéreau I (Marguerite, née Caillou, active 1729-1755); see H. Cavalié, Pierre Germain dit le Romain (site Thèses de l'Ecole des chartes, consulted 2/20/09). Binding: 19th-century green goatskin, signed by Reymann; title, author & imprint on spine in gilt; edges of boards and turn-ins gilt tooled; page edges gilt and marbled; striped ribbon place marker.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 Berbigié. 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 1 bound with: Livre d'ornemens / Pierre Germain (Paris : Chez l'auteur, 1751)