MOREAU (P.). Nouveau et IVe cahier concernant l'orphèvrerie, bijouterie et emeaux. Dédiée aux artistes. [Relié à la suite] : Nouveau et Ve cahier À Paris, chez Crépy, 1771.

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MOREAU (P.). Nouveau et IVe cahier concernant l'orphèvrerie, bijouterie et emeaux. Dédiée aux artistes. [Relié à la suite] : Nouveau et Ve cahier À Paris, chez Crépy, 1771.
MOREAU (P.). New and IVth booklet concerning goldsmithing, jewelry and emeaux. Dedicated to artists. [Bound afterwards] : New and Fifth book In Paris, chez Crépy, 1771. 2 parts in one volume in-folio, marbled brown basane XIXth c., spine with 5 nerves and ornamented, garnet-red basane title-piece, triple gilt fillet and angular fleurons on the boards, red edges (head-pieces, spines and cuts rubbed, varnish on the boards chipped). Extremely rare meeting of two suites of models of jewelry and various objects, in particular boxes or snuffboxes, engraved by P. Moreau, active in Paris at the end of the 18th century. Each suite is composed of 6 engraved plates, including the title. Guilmard (Les maîtres ornemanistes, 1880) indicates that he has never encountered the hypothetical suites 1 to 3, and does not mention the 5th book. (Guilmard, n° 47 p. 235).
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