I spent a little time trying to figure out what the book is. It doesn't appear to have any identifying info on it. Maybe there is identifying info on the archive but I couldn 't find it. However, I am certain it is the same book that is shown in pl. 15 of Santina Levey's Lace a History. Ghirlanda de sei vaghi fiori, by Pietro Paolo Tozzi, Padua, 1604. I was trying to figure out if it had ever been reprinted in modern times. I can't find any reference to a reprint. It is listed in the Lotz Bibliography of Pattern Books as number 139 a. It claims there are copies in the Metropolitan Museum, the V & A, museums in Leipzig, Vienna, Bologna, and Paris. There are also other versions of the book, one in 1616, and one in 1621. So, is it an original or a reprint? The library has punched its name in the book, which I would find a little surprising if it was an original. But, then again, who knows? Devon
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