Lotz (Arthur)

(25 cm), xii, 274, (2) pp. and 213 illustrations on 108 pages. Publisher’s cloth, printed dust jacket. - A bibliography of textile pattern-books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The same patterns, printed from the original blocks or more or less skilfully copied, appear repeatedly in books produced by different printers in different towns. To identify successive editions, and decide who copied whom, as Lotz has done, is no light task; his book remains the most authoritative bibliography. Unchanged reprint of K.W. Hiersemann’s 1933 edition. Current publisher’s retail price for softcover reprint €149 (9783777263038; www.hiersemann.de/). ¶ Dust jacket finger-marked; otherwise a very good copy.