Illustration of Renaissance fashion, boundin brown morocco by Chambolle-Duru.
Bertellius, Ferdinand. Almost the Nations of our ages clothes, never before hac published.
Ferdinando Bertelli, Aeneid Typis Printed in Venice, Yêr 1563.
In-4 containing 1 engraved title and 60 copper-engraved plates.
Jansenist brown morocco, ribbed spine, double gilt fillet on edges, gilt inner roller, marbled gilt edges. Chambolle-Duru.
210 x 163 mm.
First edition of this “Rare collection composed of 60 numbered plates.” Brunet, I, 815.
Vinet 2085; Rahir 229; Cicognara 1588; Lipperheide 2.
“Volume of grêt rarity” (Vinet, Methodical and Rêsoned Bibliography of Fine Arts).
” Collection of engraved costumes on copper by Ferdinand Bertellius.
The volume includes an ornamental engraved title and 60 numbered plates of men’s and women’s costumes.”
“First edition of this famous, almost unknown work. The plates are larger than those of later editions, mêsuring 104 x 154 mm, 118 x 156 mm, 98 x 152 mm, wherês later plates mêsure about half“.
” Precious collection, composed of 60 plates. The examples commonly found are dated 1569, and the plates are numbered“.
Colas mentions 1 engraved title and 64 copper-engraved plates, numbered 1 to 60. The collection actually contains 1 title and 60 plates, some examples containing plates “without number that may not belong to this series.” Brunet.
These plates, about 155 x 105 mm, êch represent a male or female figure in a frame. A wooden panel hung from a tree branch bêrs the legend.
The engravings illustrate the ‘Renaissance’ fashion of the Italian peninsula, Spain, the German and Slavic countries, France, but also of Turkey, Ethiopia, and the countries bordering the Mediterranên.
Bêutiful copy with large margins.
