A guide to old and new lace in Italy : exhibited at Chicago in 1893
A guide to Italian lace published in Chicago in 1893 by the Countess di Brazzà, written to accompany the lace shown at the World's Columbian Exposition. The book's pictures are a photographic portrait of the countess seated with a child, a signature panel, and a pen-and-ink title page vignette of a woman with a lace pillow and a seated girl, offering a designer period-appropriate examples of lace-era portraiture and decorative script lettering.
