Digitized Materials from the Library's Rare Book Collection

description - Published in 1567, "La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorti di ricami…" is a pattern book that provided designs for the elaborate lacework and embroidery of the period. These pattern books were designed to be portable and easily handled,… subject - Design relation - Identifier - NK1530 O88 1567 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p132501coll14,313

description - "This is a rare example of a printed book containing the suites of illustrations created by the Martinet enterprise at the end of the 1760s. A team of artists created six illustrations for a projected series of luxury editions of opéras-comiques,… subject - Operas -- To 1800 -- Librettos relation - Libretto by Sedaine. Cf. Grove's Dictionary of music and musicians. -- Libretto by M.J. Sedaine. Cf. Loewenberg. Annals of opera. -- Etched plates by F. Marie Queverdo and Marie Thérèse Martinet. -- CAI copy in modern boards with leather label. --… Identifier - ND553 Q84.5 R68 1772 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p132501coll14,135

description - John Long's Coverled Book is a handwritten manuscript containing diagrams and instructions for the weaving of geometric patterns into coverleds, or coverlets. The instructions are for double weaving on a loom, which is also called a summer and… subject - Coverlets -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County -- 19th century relation - The manuscript, which now forms part of the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Arts Collection, was conserved in 2001 at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center due to damage from its iron-based ink. The Complex Weavers' Guild underwrote partial costs… Identifier - NK8805 L65 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p132501coll14,29