GERMAIN (Pierre). Livre d'ornemens composés par P[ier]re Germain M[archan]d orfevre joayllier à Paris. Paris, chez l'auteur, 1751. In-4, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, inner lace, marbled double endpapers, gilt edges (Gruel). First edition of this superb and very rare collection of ornamental designs published by the goldsmith Pierre Germain dit le Romain (1703-1783), consisting of ten numbered plates engraved with burin after his designs by Jacques-Jean Pasquier (1718-1785). This is the second of two works published by the young Parisian master silversmith - who was then working for Jacques Roëttiers on Place du Carrousel - after his Éléments d'orfèvrerie of 1748. These two collections were widely copied throughout Europe. Some of his models can be found in the plates of the Encyclopédie. An elegant copy bound by Léon Gruel. From the Alexis de Redé library, with bookplate. Upper hinge restored, headbone rubbed, 2 endpapers partially unbound, traces of a bookplate removed. Cohen, 430.