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Cousin, Jean

VINCIOLO, Federico de Les singuliers et nouveaux pour-traicts, du seigneur Frederic de Vinciolo Venetien, pourtouttes sortes d'ouvrages de lingerie. Paris J. le Clerc 1599 2 parts in one 4to: [72] ff. (A1, A2, B1, C1, C2, C3, C4 and L1 in high-quality facsimile, water stain on B2, lower bl. margin of F1 restored, outer margins of G4-H2 and K2 restored touching the woodcuts, outer margin of N3 verso, O2 cut short, annotations in pencil on lower pastedown). Mod. half blue morocco signed Zaehnsdorf, marbled papers on covers with double gilt fillets, richly gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, a.e.g. (corners and joints sl. rubbed). Rare fourth edition (1st surviving ed. Paris 1587) of this famous embroidery and lace pattern book by the Venetian de Vinciolo. Illustrated with 2 engr. title-borders with the arms of Louise de Lorraine at the head and two figures of women making lace attributed to Jean Cousin, 36 woodcut "point couppé" patterns, white on black, printed on rectos only (versos blank) and 62 patterns on rectos and versos being grids with black squares, cutting out of the lines to appear white on the page. Some look like paper cutouts pasted onto the grids although they were cut into the grid block. Numerous lacemaking pattern books were published in the 16th and 17th c. They generally include almost no instructions on how to execute their models. The readers could be already experience needleworkers not in the need of any directions as well as book lovers enjoying to browse through the intricate designs. Because of this the works were manipulated a lot and are now very rare and often in a poor state or incomplete. Vinciolo was brought to the French court by queen Catherine de' Medici for his lacemaking talents. His book was the first to offer designs for making lace as separate pieces that could then be added to linens or clothing. The work is a result of the collaboration between Vinciolo and the Parisian printmaker Jean Le Clerc. This relationship was put under pressure after Vinciolo encouraged his readers to imitate his designs while Le Clerc's privilege forbade publishers to reproduce the book. Anyhow this didn't hold back some printers producing pirated editions. In response to this Le Clerc overloaded the market with different versions of the pattern book until the late 1610s. The first part of the book considers patterns of cutwork (in which holes (corresponding to the black areas in the patterns)) are an important part of the lace work, mostly used for collars, cuffs and the upper part of dresses. The second section includes patterns of "lacis" or lace with the patterns darned onto a netting grid, used to decorate various housebold textiles such as towels, tablecloths and bed furnishings. Ref. USTC. - Adams V:837. - Pettegree (FB) 51146.

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Cousin, Jean

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