Hardcover
1949 · Prague
by Drobna, Zoroslava and Bohumir Lifka
Prague: Sfinx, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Fair (Text clean but with a yellow stain on p. 70 and art museum ex-lib. marks of bar code, bookplate, front sticker, and blind stamp/notation. DJ worn at edges, torn in three places (about 1 inch each), and with sticker on front cover). Red cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Color-illus. dj with white lettering on blue spine. 70 pp. text, followed by 103 color and bw plates. Two long essays in one volume. Text in Spanish. The Wealth of Ecclesiastical Embroidery in Czechoslovakia and The Christ Child of Prague. Each plate annotated. A page of more than 50 errata is included in the back (mostly spelling errors). A good, tight reading copy with excellent plates showing entire embroideries as well as views up close of the delicate stitching and figures.
(Inventory #: 152719)