Trésor de l'art dentellier. Répertoire des dentelles à la main de tous les pays, depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours [...].

Lge 4to; 96 pl.

Mod. bordeaux morocco, gilt fillet, roll and angular tool frame on the boards, richly gilt and orn. spine with raised bands, purple tabby doublures ruled with a gilt fillet, endpapers with same tabby, second endpapers in marbled paper, orig. wrappers pres. Under bordeaux simili leather slipcase (some sm. white spots). Nice copy, untrimmed.

First edition, of this inventory of French, Italian and Belgian lacemaking techniques and know-how. Luxuriously ed. and ill. (complete) with 96 plates in b/w protected by silky paper with printed captions, and numerous fig. in text. More than 800 designs are reproduced in total.