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The first pattern book for embroidery with etchings
Schön neues Modelbuch von allerley lustigen Modeln naczunähen[sic!] zuwürcken und zusticken.
Nürnberg, Balthasar Caimoxen, 1597. 4to oblong (160 x 195 mm). [IV](of V; lacks the title page) text leaves, surrounded by a typographical border and 35 numbered copperengraved plates of embroidery examples by Johann Sibmacher.
Alumn tawed pigskin, richly blind tooled. Edges coloured red. Variant of the first or second edition, published in the same year as the first edition, but with text leaves without signatures (type reset), the same embroidery plates, now numbered 1-35 and this editon issued without the grid plates.
In this Modelbuch it is the first time that etching by the author himself was done. Before the pattern books were in woodcut. Here the designer and artist were not the same person. Siebmacher used the possibilities of etching very well to offer a much more detailed depiction than was possible in woodcut, and explioted the possibilities of marking details with points and different hatchings. In 1601 followed another Modelbuch. It is the basic publication for the patternbooks of the following centuries.
Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher (Nürnberg 1561-1612) was an engraver, publisher and painter of coats of arms. His first etchings are from 1590. He engraved mordels for artisans, many maps and town views but is mostly known nowadays for his extensive Wappenbuch.
-Literature: Lotz, Bibliographie der Modelbücher, no. 32b.
-Condition: Title page bound in as facsimile; ca 10 plates (mostly small) parts of the blank margin strengthened (very well done); 4 plates doubled of wich plate 35 lacks 3 small pieces of the engraving neatly added in drawing; modern end leaves; Leaves mounted on stubs; Binding a bit warped; Despite its defects a very attractive copy of this rare embroidery manual.
Alumn tawed pigskin, richly blind tooled. Edges coloured red. Variant of the first or second edition, published in the same year as the first edition, but with text leaves without signatures (type reset), the same embroidery plates, now numbered 1-35 and this editon issued without the grid plates.
In this Modelbuch it is the first time that etching by the author himself was done. Before the pattern books were in woodcut. Here the designer and artist were not the same person. Siebmacher used the possibilities of etching very well to offer a much more detailed depiction than was possible in woodcut, and explioted the possibilities of marking details with points and different hatchings. In 1601 followed another Modelbuch. It is the basic publication for the patternbooks of the following centuries.
Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher (Nürnberg 1561-1612) was an engraver, publisher and painter of coats of arms. His first etchings are from 1590. He engraved mordels for artisans, many maps and town views but is mostly known nowadays for his extensive Wappenbuch.
-Literature: Lotz, Bibliographie der Modelbücher, no. 32b.
-Condition: Title page bound in as facsimile; ca 10 plates (mostly small) parts of the blank margin strengthened (very well done); 4 plates doubled of wich plate 35 lacks 3 small pieces of the engraving neatly added in drawing; modern end leaves; Leaves mounted on stubs; Binding a bit warped; Despite its defects a very attractive copy of this rare embroidery manual.
€ 3.400
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