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[HOFFMAN, Wilhelm (designer)]. Schön newes Modelbuch von 600. ausserwehlten künstlichen... Frankfurt am Main: Sigismund Latomus, 1606.
Oblong 2° (202 x 323mm.). Collation: [A]-R2. Letterpress title in German and French printed in red and black within a fine hand-coloured pictorial woodcut border (two small holes in border), 33 woodcut plates. (Margins of first few and last few leaves a little tattered.) Folded and stitched (in upright folio format) as issued (?), modern morocco-backed box.
RARE. An unusual folio collection of lacemakers' patterns, including seventeen full-page designs from Hoffman's extremely rare Newes Vollkommenes Modelbuch of 1604, and sixteen designs printed from arrangements of small blocks, possibly from Latomus' 8° publications of 1605 and 1606. Cf. Lotz Bibliographie der Modelbücher 45a-d (later editions).
Oblong 2° (202 x 323mm.). Collation: [A]-R2. Letterpress title in German and French printed in red and black within a fine hand-coloured pictorial woodcut border (two small holes in border), 33 woodcut plates. (Margins of first few and last few leaves a little tattered.) Folded and stitched (in upright folio format) as issued (?), modern morocco-backed box.
RARE. An unusual folio collection of lacemakers' patterns, including seventeen full-page designs from Hoffman's extremely rare Newes Vollkommenes Modelbuch of 1604, and sixteen designs printed from arrangements of small blocks, possibly from Latomus' 8° publications of 1605 and 1606. Cf. Lotz Bibliographie der Modelbücher 45a-d (later editions).