[Embroidery] - CIOTTI, G. Battista. Prima parte de' fiori, e disegni di varie sorti di Ricami Moderni. Venezia, Francesco di Franceschi, 1591.
Estimation :
Start Price 4 000 €
Description
Oblong 8vo; Binding in boards; leaves 20: 2 not numbered leaves including Titlepage with Printer's device,
17 plates engraved on wood numbered III-XV, i.e. XVIIII, error numbering after plate XVI, 1 not numbered leaf; wide printer's device and Colophon on the recto: "Appresso Nicolo Moretti, Ad instantia di Francesco di Franceschi".
FIRST EDITION. Important book of models and designs of embroidery, from different reasons, precious testimony of a tradition actually born in Italy in the early sixteenth century; these models have been the reference iconography not only in the Venice area, where was the historic art of lacemaking, but throughout Italy. The practical use that was made of these books, which often were dismembered and whose models were perforated to carry the design on the fabric, makes it particularly rare and precious the fact to find them in a state of completeness and of good conservation.
Lotz n. 121. Berlin Kat. 1642
Condition Report: Very nice specimen.
17 plates engraved on wood numbered III-XV, i.e. XVIIII, error numbering after plate XVI, 1 not numbered leaf; wide printer's device and Colophon on the recto: "Appresso Nicolo Moretti, Ad instantia di Francesco di Franceschi".
FIRST EDITION. Important book of models and designs of embroidery, from different reasons, precious testimony of a tradition actually born in Italy in the early sixteenth century; these models have been the reference iconography not only in the Venice area, where was the historic art of lacemaking, but throughout Italy. The practical use that was made of these books, which often were dismembered and whose models were perforated to carry the design on the fabric, makes it particularly rare and precious the fact to find them in a state of completeness and of good conservation.
Lotz n. 121. Berlin Kat. 1642
Condition Report: Very nice specimen.
