Description
Musees Royaux d art et d histoire, Bruxelles, Published date: 1978. Text in French. Softcover, printed paper wrappers; 23 pp plus 34 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates.
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Condition & notes
In good condition. Original pictorial paper covers with light to moderate edge wear, rubbing, and age toning; small surface scuffs. Binding sound. Previous owner name in ink on half-title page. Interior pages lightly toned with scattered foxing, including final blank leaves; faint discoloration along the inner gutter at the rear; otherwise unmarked. Exhibition catalog published by the Musees royaux d art et d histoire documenting Belgian lace of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with historical text and an extensive photographic plate section illustrating representative examples from museum collections. Contents include: Genres de dentelles; Les Dentelles melangees: Application de Bruxelles; Dentelle Duchesse; Points d Angleterre; Les Dentelles a l aiguille: Imitation de dentelles etrangeres anciennes; Point de gaze ou point de rose de Bruxelles; Les Dentelles aux fuseaux; Table des illustrations; Planches.