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Items
Details
Title
Schön Neues Modelbuch.
Created/published
Nuremberg : Balthasar Caymox, 1597
Description
35, 4 plates ; 15 cm
Associated name
Note
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Place of creation/publication
Germany -- Nuremberg, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
272271
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Gladys Brooks Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
From dealer's description: "FIST EDITION variant. 4to, ff. (vi) 35 (vii). Gothic letter. Engraved t-p with title and date in cartouche supported by cherubs, large scene depicting women weaving and embroidering below, architectural elements to both sides, small monogram 'CM' in lower left corner, printer and author's name at foot. 7 pp. of text within decorative frame, 35 plates of designs and 6 ll. of squared rulings (printed only on recto). Early ms. design dotted in ink to last leaf. General age browning and mainly marginal brown foxing, a couple of small ink stains to pl. 15, tear to lower blank margin of pl. 2. A good copy in contemporary vellum, covers a bit soiled, bordered with a double blind rule, fleurons to corners, oval arabesque centrepiece to upper cover, rhombus-shaped centrepiece to lower. Missing ties. Spine double blind ruled in compartments with flower stamps at centres and ms. title. "Halbmayr" on verso of front flyleaf. This copy includes more than 80 patterns with geometric, floral and animal designs. Among the most attractive, we find two plates depicting an imperial eagle, a knight fighting a dragon, and two halfhuman creatures whose limbs merge with the vegetal motifs surrounding them. All designs are printed on squared paper, as it allowed the embroiderer to easily reproduce them on a greater scale using the same proportions. The six empty grids at the end of this copy are meant for adding new patterns: one bears the dotted outline of a branch with leaves. Interestingly, it was the custom of workers to transfer a pattern from the book onto the cloths by pricking the design with a pin and then rubbing charcoal through the holes, thus marking the material underneath. In time, this process destroyed the paper, making well preserved and complete copies such as this extremely rare."
Ordered from Sokol Books Ltd., D9449, 2021-03-06, email quote.
From dealer's description: "FIST EDITION variant. 4to, ff. (vi) 35 (vii). Gothic letter. Engraved t-p with title and date in cartouche supported by cherubs, large scene depicting women weaving and embroidering below, architectural elements to both sides, small monogram 'CM' in lower left corner, printer and author's name at foot. 7 pp. of text within decorative frame, 35 plates of designs and 6 ll. of squared rulings (printed only on recto). Early ms. design dotted in ink to last leaf. General age browning and mainly marginal brown foxing, a couple of small ink stains to pl. 15, tear to lower blank margin of pl. 2. A good copy in contemporary vellum, covers a bit soiled, bordered with a double blind rule, fleurons to corners, oval arabesque centrepiece to upper cover, rhombus-shaped centrepiece to lower. Missing ties. Spine double blind ruled in compartments with flower stamps at centres and ms. title. "Halbmayr" on verso of front flyleaf. This copy includes more than 80 patterns with geometric, floral and animal designs. Among the most attractive, we find two plates depicting an imperial eagle, a knight fighting a dragon, and two halfhuman creatures whose limbs merge with the vegetal motifs surrounding them. All designs are printed on squared paper, as it allowed the embroiderer to easily reproduce them on a greater scale using the same proportions. The six empty grids at the end of this copy are meant for adding new patterns: one bears the dotted outline of a branch with leaves. Interestingly, it was the custom of workers to transfer a pattern from the book onto the cloths by pricking the design with a pin and then rubbing charcoal through the holes, thus marking the material underneath. In time, this process destroyed the paper, making well preserved and complete copies such as this extremely rare."
Ordered from Sokol Books Ltd., D9449, 2021-03-06, email quote.
Folger accession
272271