![VECELLIO, Cesare (1521-1601). Corona delle nobili et virtuose donne. [Part IV: Gioiello della Corona per le nobili, et virtuose donne, libro quarto]. Venice: printed by the author, 1592. [Part IV: Heredi di Cesare Vecellio, 1608, but dedication dated 1616]. 4 parts in one volume, oblong 4° (131 x 185mm). 108 woodcuts of lace designs. (Some browning and spotting.) 18th-century vellum, marbled endpapers (old stains, a little bowed).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_06332_0094_001(vecellio_cesare_corona_delle_nobili_et_virtuose_donne_part_iv_gioiello071649).jpg?w=1)
![VECELLIO, Cesare (1521-1601). Corona delle nobili et virtuose donne. [Part IV: Gioiello della Corona per le nobili, et virtuose donne, libro quarto]. Venice: printed by the author, 1592. [Part IV: Heredi di Cesare Vecellio, 1608, but dedication dated 1616]. 4 parts in one volume, oblong 4° (131 x 185mm). 108 woodcuts of lace designs. (Some browning and spotting.) 18th-century vellum, marbled endpapers (old stains, a little bowed).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_06332_0094_000(vecellio_cesare_corona_delle_nobili_et_virtuose_donne_part_iv_gioiello012153).jpg?w=1)
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VECELLIO, Cesare (1521-1601). Corona delle nobili et virtuose donne. [Part IV: Gioiello della Corona per le nobili, et virtuose donne, libro quarto]. Venice: printed by the author, 1592. [Part IV: Heredi di Cesare Vecellio, 1608, but dedication dated 1616]. 4 parts in one volume, oblong 4° (131 x 185mm). 108 woodcuts of lace designs. (Some browning and spotting.) 18th-century vellum, marbled endpapers (old stains, a little bowed).
RARE SECOND EDITION OF 'THE GREAT COSTUME BOOK' (Vecellio's Renaissance costume book). Cesare Vecellio worked as an assistant for his famous cousin Titian and published various works on fashion and contemporary 16th-century design. Brunet V, 1105 (1591 edition); Mortimer/Harvard Italian II, 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'.
RARE SECOND EDITION OF 'THE GREAT COSTUME BOOK' (Vecellio's Renaissance costume book). Cesare Vecellio worked as an assistant for his famous cousin Titian and published various works on fashion and contemporary 16th-century design. Brunet V, 1105 (1591 edition); Mortimer/Harvard Italian II, 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'.