KIRSCHBAUM, Johann Michael.

Neues Weberbild: und Musterbuch. zur Beforderung der edlen Leinen- und Bildweberkunst . von Johann Michael Kirschbaum, Webermeister zu Heilbronn. [Weaving].

Germany: Heilbronn und Rothenburg, 1771,

First Edition. oblong quarto, three-quarter leather and marbled paper, with four raised bands at spine. unpaginated. Heilbronn und Rothenburg, Item #34456

Handwritten, and quite elaborate, ownership label on front free endpaper. The book's standard title page, printed in elaborate German type, is supplemented by an additional title page immediately following that is somewhat shortened in description, but has an elaborate border of weaving and material processing tools as well as a finished bolt of cloth in the lower left corner. 74 plates of weaving patterns, broken down into 7 sections. In this edition there was a binding error, two copies of Plate 37 were bound in, Plate 38 is missing. Scuffing and wear to covers, small losses at board corners, chipping and loss at base of spine, small wormhole to read cover at corner. Indications of an earlier spill along upper right corner of front board and text block that extends through very top of text block to Plate 16. An important and rare early treatise on weaving by master weaver Johann Michael Kirschbaum. Written by Kirschbaum for use by amateur, journeyman and master weavers.

Price: $2,500.00