VECELLIO, Cesare (1521-1601). Degli habiti antichi, et moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due . Venice: Damiano Zenaro, 1590. 2 parts in one volume, 8 o (173 x 112 mm). Architectural and allegorical woodcut title-borders, 2 section titles within 4-part ornamental borders, half-page emblematic medallion cut (c8v), 417 full-page woodcuts within ornamental borders, including five views of Venice. (Title and last leaf discreetly mounted, final blank removed, filled wormtracks in upper margins of quires Ff-Ii, affecting woodcut border or headlines in 20 leaves.) 18th-century calf gilt, edges stained red (worn, old repair to upper joint, now split). Provenance : Joseph Augustin Brentano (bookplate); Lionel H. Pries (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED COSTUME BOOK, and the first costume book to comment on contemporary manners and dress. The first part contains 361 illustrations of European (including Russian and Balkan) and Turkish costume. Venetian costume is emphasized, and the illustrations include several views of Venice and Venetian life. The second part illustrates 59 examples of Asian and African dress, including costumes from China and the Canary Islands. Vecellio acknowledges Christoph Krieger of Nuremberg as his wood engraver in the description of a Bolognese lady on Bb8r. Adams V-314; Colas 2976; Lipperheide Aa 33; Vinet 2093.
VECELLIO, Cesare (1521-1601). Degli habiti antichi, et moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due . Venice: Damiano Zenaro, 1590. 2 parts in one volume, 8 o (173 x 112 mm). Architectural and allegorical woodcut title-borders, 2 section titles within 4-part ornamental borders, half-page emblematic medallion cut (c8v), 417 full-page woodcuts within ornamental borders, including five views of Venice. (Title and last leaf discreetly mounted, final blank removed, filled wormtracks in upper margins of quires Ff-Ii, affecting woodcut border or headlines in 20 leaves.) 18th-century calf gilt, edges stained red (worn, old repair to upper joint, now split). Provenance : Joseph Augustin Brentano (bookplate); Lionel H. Pries (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED COSTUME BOOK, and the first costume book to comment on contemporary manners and dress. The first part contains 361 illustrations of European (including Russian and Balkan) and Turkish costume. Venetian costume is emphasized, and the illustrations include several views of Venice and Venetian life. The second part illustrates 59 examples of Asian and African dress, including costumes from China and the Canary Islands. Vecellio acknowledges Christoph Krieger of Nuremberg as his wood engraver in the description of a Bolognese lady on Bb8r. Adams V-314; Colas 2976; Lipperheide Aa 33; Vinet 2093.
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