Author: SCHUETTE, M.,
Title: Alte Spitzen (Nadel- und Klöppelspitzen). Ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber. First edn.
Description: Berlin, 1914. Small 8°, original limp pictorial cloth, 255pp. With 172 text-ills. & plates, bibliography, glossary of technical terms, register. After a technical introd. (pp.1-83), the author discusses & describes the history of lace & lace-making in Italy, France, The Netherlands (incl. Belgium, lace from Valenciennes, Malines, Brussels, etc.), Germany. A classical work on the subject, supplying excellent information. Bibl. für Kunst- und Antiquitätensammler, 6. Apart from some slight shaving of the binding a Near Fine copy. Rare.

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