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Lot 729: VECELLIO, Cesare (1521-1601). Corona delle nobili et virtuose donne . Venice: Printed for the Author, 1591.

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Christie'sNew York, NY, USJune 20, 2013

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VECELLIO, Cesare (1521-1601). Corona delle nobili et virtuose donne. Venice: Printed for the Author, 1591. Three parts in one volume, oblong 4o (137 x 183 mm). Vecellio's woodcut bird device on title-page of each book. 76 woodcut patterns for embroidery and lace designs, woodcut of Venus on A4v, medallion figure of Vesta within a border of pattern strips at end of book two, and medallion and emblem within borders of pattern strips at end of book three. Two leaves misbound: Cc3 and Cc4 from book II bound in books I and III respectively; and with an inserted later issue of Gg2 from the second part bound in part one. (First few leaves stained.) Contemporary limp vellum (recased). Provenance: Sir John Sterling Maxwell (bookplates, including Nether Pollock bookplate); acquired from Thomas Thorp, 1964. SCARCE FIRST EDITION of Vecellio's famous lace-pattern book. Cesare Vecellio worked as an assistant for his famous cousin Titian and published various works on fashion and contemporary 16th-century design. The work was immediately popular, and books I and II were published three times in 1591. A fourth book was published in 1594 and a fifth in 1596, and all were reissued into the early 17th century. "The appeal of European-wide fashion was exploited as a lure to buyers of pattern books, too, such as Cesare Vecellio's La Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne, which includes 'cuffs worn by French ladies,' 'Flemish-style rosettes,' and bedspread designs 'used by Greek ladies'" (Ann Rosalind Jones, Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory, Cambridge UP, 2000, p. 137). Brunet V:1105; Mortimer Italian 520; Vecellio's Renaissance costume book, 1977, p. 3; Pizzi Antichi nei Disegni di Cesare Vecellio, 1980, p. 6 ("La sua opera pubblicata più volte dall'anno 1591 (I edizione) si ricorda in una rara edizione, si dice la IV, benché nulla si sappia della II e III, della Biblioteca Marciana del 1593").

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The Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow Part Three: The Baroque and Rococo Periods

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Christie's
June 20, 2013, 12:00 AM EST

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