La Revolte des Passemens
Hardcover
1935 · New York
by Whiting, Gertrude (ed.)
New York: The Needle and Bobbin Club, 1935. Hardcover. VG but for ex-lib. sticker on spine and stamp on title page. Black, lace-patterned paper/boards with cream title block and red lettering; black cloth spine with red lettering. x, 79 pp. 23 bw plates. Texts and Notes assembled by Gertrude Whiting. English translation by Hazel Dunning Sommerhoff. Anonymous poem (in French, followed by the English translation), written in response to Louis XIV's 1660 edict that prohibited all use of lace and embroidery on apparel. Includes the original declaration of November 1660, followed by bw plates of lovely lace. (Inventory #: 27610)