Paper lace and printed silk: collection of fine and charming luxury cards Italy Baron de Bonvoust (1691-1785)

Baron de Bonvoust (1691-1785)

hence the number 58 on the front cover

Contemporary half calf with marbled sides

and also bears the woodcut signature of Adjutant General René

arguing that the nation itself was morally “enslaved” so long as colonial bondage endured

Paper lace and printed silk: collection of fine and charming luxury cards Italy Baron de Bonvoust (1691-1785)Six early wishing and friendship billets. Austria Germany, ca. 18001820. A charming collection of early 19th century Glckwunsch and Freundschaftsbillets, distinguished by the refined techniques that characterised the Viennese and South German luxury card industry: hand coloured printing, blind embossing, pierced paper lace, and printed silk insets. In the Biedermeier period these billets were widely used in domestic exchange, especially by women, who