First leaf of the present copy is title avant la lettre; title taken from Berlin. Second leaf is portrait of Bérain dated 1711. Third leaf is section title: Ornemens inuentez par I. Berain et se vendent chez Monsieur Thuret aux Galleries du Louvre; it is sometimes taken as title for the work as a whole when title is blank, as here

Foliation count includes two double-leaf plates bound in at the center fold, each counted as two leaves

Etchings by Jean Le Pautre, Juan Dolivar, Gérard-Jean-Baptiste Scotin, and others

In addition to ornamental designs, subjects of these plates include landscape architecture, scenes from the Commedia dell'arte and operas, ships, and sepulchral monuments and decorations for a number of late 17th century royal funerals

Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung

In Getty copy the five prints of section I are from Bérain's edition of 1700-1708

Bound: 19th-century full red morocco; gilt boards and spine; all edges gilt; bookplates of E. Foulc and Hans Fürstenberg on front pastedown

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