Ricami Genovesi
Milano: Luigi Alfieri, 1952. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering; bw mounted frontispiece; 30 pp text followed by 60 pp of bw plates. Text is in Italian. Genoese embroidery. More
Milano: Luigi Alfieri, 1952. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering; bw mounted frontispiece; 30 pp text followed by 60 pp of bw plates. Text is in Italian. Genoese embroidery. More
Warsaw, Poland: Arkady, 1975. Hardcover. Slipcase covered with black cloth; Black cloth over boards; Color pictorial dj.; Color pictorial endpapers; 501 pp.; 17 gatefolds; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Text in Polish; An in-depth look at the Flemish tapestries in the collection of the Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow;..... More
Leipzig: Von Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1923. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards; color illustrated frontispiece, XII, unpaginated bw illustrations, 668 pp, 24 pages of bw illustrations. Text in German. Tapestries. I part. The Netherlands, Volume I. Lacks Part 2. More
Helsinki: Designmuseo, 2003. Paperback. Illustrated wraps with white lettering. 182 pp. Mainly color illustrations. "Published in conjunction with Ritva Puotila's retrospective exhibition 13.6.-31.8.2003 Designmuseo, Finnish Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki" More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1934. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gray lettering; 312 pp; 439 bw illustrations throughout. Text in German. This is a corrected reprint edition from 1934. More
Brussels, Belgium: Editions L'Arcade, 1960. Hardcover. light grey cloth boards w/ spine printing. book xxxiii, 318 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. illustrated fabric dustjacket. text in French. Pages lightly tanning. Pages have occasional smudges or light marks, otherwise, appear clean. Nicely illustrated tour through the history of 14th and..... More
2016. Paperback. Glossy, color-illus. wraps with white lettering on crimson spine. French flaps. 324 pp. with more than 450 illustrations in color. Text in Italian. A beautiful catalogue of exquisite textiles. “La lunga e affascinante storia della Roma ebraica è narrata dagli oggetti e dai documenti conservati nel Museo Ebraico..... More
Colonge, Germany: Bohlau Verlag, 2019. Softcover. light yellow wraps w/ illustrations. 459 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. text primarily German. Select essays/chapters in English. Primarily German text. "For the first time, this book looks at the textile arts as avant-garde (cultural) techniques and the textile as an artistic field..... More
Leiden, Netherlands: Uitgeversmaatschappij, 1936. Hardcover. navy cloth boards w/ gilt printing; gilt spine printing. vol1: book x, 314 pgs w/ section of bw plates; vol2: book xiii, 554 pgs w/ bw illustrations. top edge yellow. brown paper jackets w/ blue printing. Full title, "With an Introduction and Partial Translation in..... More
New York / New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2002. Softcover. glossy pictorial wraps w/ red & white printing. x, 594 pp. Profusely illustrated in BW and color. Issued in conjunction with a March 12-June 19, 2002 exhibition. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 63..... More
Maidstone: [J. Barcham Green], 1960. Number 527 of 1,000. Paperback. Marbled wraps with bounted title label with black lettering and green illustration; 27 untrimmed pp; richly illustrated; Copy number 527 of 1,000. "The text in this booklet is printed on hand-made Linton 25 lb. light toned Medieval demy, "not", and..... More
New York: John Lane & Company, 1912. Limited Edition but NOT numbered/signed. Hardbound. Cream paper/boards with gilt lettering. 438 pp. on Normandy Vellum. Color frontis tipped on with tissue guard. Three additional color plates tipped on, all with tissue guards. 147 halftone engravings. With chapters covering Gothic and Renaissance tapestries;..... More
Paris: H. Laurens, 1919. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 4 preliminary leaves, 211, [1] pages frontispiece, 9 plates (some folded). Text in French. Illustrated work of non-text planks, complete reproduction of the tapestry from photographs taken directly. Translated: "Queen Mathilde's tapestry known as the Bayeux tapestry," Excellent reference..... More
Anvers, Belgium: Martial & Snoek / Gaspard De Wit / Hessenhuis, 1994. Softcover. glossy, black wraps w/ illustrations & red/white printing. 199 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. Wonderfully illustrated exhibition catalogue of 16th to 20th century Flemish tapestry art. 20th century artists include Carmen Groza, Marce Truyens, Anne de..... More
Milano: Luigi Alfieri, 1944. Second Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth-and-paper over boards with gilt lettering; 68 pp.; 40 plates; color illustrations. Text in Italian. More
Paris: Imp. Georges Petit, 1910. Hardcover. Three-quarter-bound boards with white mounted title card on the front cover, with light green lettering; 34 pp.; 24 unnumbered leaves of plates, some of which have tissue guards; illustrations; prices realized are penciled in the text. Text in French. More
London, England: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1993. Softcover. glossy yellow, red & black illustrated wraps w/ white printing. 147 pgs w/ bw, color illustrations. 167 color illustrations. Wonderful, vibrant illustrations. More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1965. First American Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth, red title block on spine with gilt letters, 209 pp. + 4 color and 120 bw plates. First monograph devoted to the silks of the 17th and 18th centuries. Investigates brocaded dress materials, damasks, taffetas, and velvets from..... More
London: V. and C. Sternberg, 1966. Paperback. Black and white illustrated wraps with white lettering; [101] pp.; richly illustrated in b&w. This cataloge was created on the occasion of an exhibition held November 2nd to 23rd, 1966. More
Paris: Henry Ernst, 1926. Hardcover. Gray paper over boards portfolio, illustrated in black, cloth spine, (6) pp; 33 color mounted plates. Text is in French. Éditions arts & couleurs series. Carpets from Finland, Norway and Sweden. More
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1923. Softcover. Oversized tan wraps with black lettering; 77 pp, bw illustrations. Text is in French. General State of the Tapestries of the Manufacture des Gobelins From Its Origin to Our Days, 1600-1900. Table volume only. Addendum consisting of notes concerning vol. 1 to 4. Index of..... More
Madrid: Fundacion Carlos de Amberes / Ediciones El Viso, 2010. Hardcover. Red & color illus. boards (looking & feeling like tapestry), 102 pp., many color illustrations. Issued in conjunction with several 2011-2012 exhibitions of the Pastrana tapestries, "a series woven in Tournai (Flanders) in about 1470." (p. 10) Includes background..... More
Paris: E. Hessling, (not identified). Hardcover. Tan portfolio boards with black lettering, red cloth spine; tan cloth tie closure; 10 pp booklet followed by 60 bw plates. Text is in French. Includes a preface and descriptive table of each plate. More
London: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1929. Hardcover. Red boards with gilt lettering; 27, [1] pp., XIII plates on 9 leaves, frontispiece, portrait, 2 folded genealogical tables. This book is a celebration of tapestries produced at Britain's Sheldon Tapestries. More
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1907. Hardcover. Gray and brown illustrated paper over boards with black lettering on black tan title block; viii, 79 pp; 21 leaves of bw plates. Text in German. More