Second livre de leçons d'ornemens dans le goût du crayon
Subtitle: dédié a Monseigneur de duc de Chaulnes paire de France chevalier des trois ordres du roi, lieutenan. général de ses armées
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 l'aîné ... et chés François au triangle d'or ...
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.

Title page signed in plate Girard sculpteur et professeur d'ornement, gravé par Demarteau l'aîné.

Title page counted in extent.

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

Avery Classics copy: Bound at top edge of leaves.