Lace.- Bartko (Kurt) Blumen & Praktische Muster fuer Spitzen, only edition, 15 plates by C.G.Röder, old ink stamp of Pare & Pilsworth to foot of title and plates, lightly soiled and creased at edges, loose as issued in contemporary cloth-backed board folder, Plauen, Christian Stoll, [c.1905] § Schuette (Marie) Alte Spitzen aus Anlass der Spitzenausstellung im stadtischen Kunstgewerbemuseum, 66 phototype plates, tissue guards (some frayed at edges), loose as issued in original cloth-backed board portfolio, a little worn, splits to joints, Leipzig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1912 § Cocheris (Hippolyte) Patrons de Broderie et de Lingerie du XVIe Siècle, facsimile reprint of rare lace pattern books, illustrations, some spotting, John L.Nevinson's copy with his bookplate (historian of costume and Assistant Keeper of Textiles at the V & A), contemporary half green morocco, covers detached, Paris, [1872] § Queen Lace Book (The)..., Part I. Mediaeval Lacework and Point Lace [all published], plates and illustrations, original cloth-backed decorated boards, upper cover embossed to resemble lace, 1874 § Riego de la Blanchardiere (Eleonore) Point Lace, colour plates, original decorated wrappers printed in red & gold, 1869 § Scott (E.) Flowers in Point Lace, plates, some colour, original decorated wrappers, some repairs, [Library Hub one copy only, in V & A], [c.1880], occasional spotting, all a little rubbed; and c.20 others on lace, v.s. (c.25)

⁂ The first item is a rare collection of designs for lace. Bartko was a designer who specialised in patterns for lace work and other crafts and in the 1930s he worked with textile designers in the Irish linen trade. Plauen was a lace-making centre from the early 19^th century and later on developed a machine-made lace, called Plauen lace, which was awarded the grand prize at the world exposition in Paris in 1900. This copy comes from the firm of Pare and Pilsworth, lace manufacturers in Nottingham from 1920 to the 1940s. WorldCat records only 3 copies.