[BINDING] -- [LACE]. PALLISER, Fanny Bury (1805-1878). History of Lace. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1865.

8vo (206 x 140 mm). Numerous illustrations. (Slight marginal toning.) 20th-century plum crushed levant gilt extra, sides elaborated gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3, gilt-decorated in 4, edges gilt, silk doublures and endpapers, STAMP-SIGNED BY ZAEHNSDORF (spine lightly sunned, a touch of wear to extremities); original cloth bound in at end.

FIRST EDITION. Palliser was a leading organizer of the 1874 International Lace Exhibition in South Kensington, and published several other works about lace.

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[BINDING] -- [LACE]. PALLISER, Fanny Bury (1805-1878). History of Lace. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1865.

The Collected Home

[BINDING] -- [LACE]. PALLISER, Fanny Bury (1805-1878). History of Lace. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1865.

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