Ornament.- Bérain (Jean) & others., [Livre de Desseins], collection of 129 engraved plates from various series, Augsburg, Jer.Wolff., [early 18th century]

Ornament.- Bérain (Jean) & others. [Livre de Desseins], collection of plates from various series, manuscript title within mounted engraved architectural surround and 129 engraved plates after Bérain, Rudolph, Le Pautre, Blasset, c.80 double-page and mounted on stubs, one plate trimmed and tipped to blank leaf, some foxing and soiling, John Gregory Crace's copy with his ink signature on front free endpaper and his bookplate, text-block loose in binding, later half morocco, spine labelled "Grotesques after Berain &c.", rubbed, small folio, Augsburg, [early 18th century]; sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return

⁂ Designs for interiors and wall panels, friezes, column capitals, urns, candlesticks, tables, chimneypieces, memorials and ironwork.

John Gregory Crace (1809-89), interior designer and decorator who worked on the Houses of Parliament and the Great Exhibition with Pugin.