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![17180 Examples of Lace Produced by North Bucks Lace Association <br> Newport Pagnall c1905 Pp., 31 + [4] price list of goods offered for sale. 9 x 51Ú2 A brief history of the Association in 1897.24 b/w plates of lace items for sale and of lace workers. Paperback V G Scarce](../images_products_thumbs/17180.jpg)
![11999 Queen Lace Book:, [The] Historical and Descriptive Account of Hand-Made Antique Laces of all countries. Part I Medieval Lace Work and Point Lace Part II Point Lace <br> "The Queen Office" London 1874 Pp. 38, illustrated text + 13 full page b/w plates. 101Ú2 x 8 Stitching gaping slightly. Original pictorial paper covered boards and cloth spine rubbed at spine and edges, o/wise V G Scarce](../images_products_thumbs/11999.jpg)
![6263 Russian Bobbin Lace <br> Leningrad 1986 [1-2] 3-27 [28] + 117 illustrations, 103 in colour 9 x 8 The plates show fine examples of Russian gold and silver lace from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. often embellished with pearls and coloured stones. There are also silk, linen and cotton laces from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, striking in their diversity. sl. wear to corners and small split at tail of spine. O/wise V G](../images_products_thumbs/6263.jpg)
![15286 <b>(CATANEA, Isabella)</b><br> II Parasole (Isabella Catanea ) Studio delle Virtuose Dame Roma, Antonio Facchetti 1597 Quaritch Reprints of Rare Books <br> Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly 1884 Reprint of the original published In Venetia in 1597 Pp.[70] facsimile of title page, introduction and plates. 61Ú2 x 8. Binding worn, contents V G Isabella (or Isabette) Catanea Parasole, although she wrote her dedication in Spanish, was probably quite Italian, a Parasole by marriage, and a Catanea by birth. She says that "she approaches Dona Juana in the proper way in which princes were served, that is to say, arms in hand; and the arms of a weak woman like me are no other than the needle " The lady to whom the dedication is addressed was a princess of the royal blood of Aragon, married to Antonio Fernandez de Cordova, Duke of Soma, then ambassador at Rome from the Spanish crown."No other copy of the first edition is at present known, except that which is now in my possession, and from which this facsimile has been derived ". Bernard Quaritch](../images_products_thumbs/15286.jpg)
![15214 <b>BUCK, Anne</b><br> Thomas Lester, His Lace and the East Midlands Industry 1620-1905 <br> 1981 [iv] v-x 1-108 pp., 11 x 8.5 Even during a period of decline in the hand-made lace industry, Thomas Lester, Bedford lace merchant, was instrumental in the production in the East Midlands of some of the areas most remarkable and interesting lace designs. Illustrated in b/w V G in d/w](../images_products_thumbs/15214.jpg)
![11717 <b>CHARLES, Mlle Marguerite et M. Maurent Pags</b><br> Les Broderies et les Dentelles (Cours en Quarente Leons) (1re Srie) <br> Paris 1908 [7] 8-238 [2] 10.5 x 7 Illustrated with b/w full page plates and in-text engravings. Pages sl. browned at edges, o/wise V G French text. Presented as a school prize in 1909 to a student at one of the coles Communales de Paris. Gilt decorated binding denotes a "Prix Municipal" of the "Ville de Paris" Whiting 257](../images_products_thumbs/11717.jpg)
