Sixième livre d'ornement dans le goût du crayon
By: dessiné par Girard sculpteur et professeur pour l'ornement
Contributors: Girard, Romain, approximately 1751, attributed name; Girard, sculpteur et professeur d'ornement; Mitchell, Herbert, former owner; Herbert Mitchell Bequest (Avery Library)
Publisher: Chez Demarteau rue de la Pelterie à la cloche
Published: 1759
Place of publication: Se vend a Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Decoration and ornament; Louis XV style; Early works to 1800; Plant forms
Notes: Dated 1759 in the catalog of the Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris. But if Romain Girard was born in 1751, either the date of publication is unlikely or another Girard, forename unknown, was responsible for this work. Dated 1770 by Guilmard.

Avery Classics copy: Incomplete. Extant copy comprised of title page, a bouquet of flowers on scrollwork and a plate of scrollwork. It is possible, if not probably the the plate including flowers comes from another publication.

Avery Classics copy: Bound with other suites of plates by Demarteau and Girard.

Avery Classics copy: Bound at top edge of leaves.

Avery Classics copy: One leaf signed in plate Demarteau and Girard, laid in.  Leaf shelved separately in four flap folder.