Author: DENUCÉ, J.,
Title: Antwerpsche Tapijtkunst en Handel.
Description: Antwerpen, De Sikkel, 1936. recent cloth, orig. lettered wraps. bound-up.Hftitle (with exlibris on verso, blank). (lxxi), 421pp. 4 fine plates, depict. old. tapestries, with tissue-guards preserved & extensive captions at tails, index, [Bronnen voor de Geschiedenis van de Vlaamsche Kunst, IV]. A very important source-work on the Antwerp (Belgium) tapestry & gobelin-industry, weavers & designers, analyzing after archival material production, patterns, wages, final prices of famous tapestries & gobelins produced, incl. i.a. notes on the influence on pattern-design by famous flemish artists as Quinten Matssijs & Peter Coecke van Aalst, mainly covering the 16th-17th century. Uncut copy. Rare. (name in margin of upper wrap. erased by felt-pen, ex-libris pasted-in on verso of hftitle, with name in ink, a very good copy however).

Keywords: tapestry/gobelin