ITALIAN LACE - PATTERN BOOK [VECELLIO (CESARE)] Corona delle Nobili et virtuose donne [-Gioiello della Corona per li nobili et virtuose donne], 4 parts in 1 vol., ONE OF 4 COPIES PRINTED ON PARCHMENT, printed heliograph ["Eliotipico"] facsimile on parchment, with publisher's printed label and ink note stating this is copy "No. 4" of 4 copies signed "F. Ongania editore, 1877" pasted to front free endpaper, titles with printer's device, pictorial preface leaf and 102 lace patterns, printed on recto only, tissue guards, publisher's printed prospectus tipped-in on front free endpaper, some leaves in final parts browned, original parchment-backed marbled boards, gilt cloth lettering label on spine, oblong 8vo (165 x 245mm.), Venice, Vecellio, 1600-1592 [but Venice, F. Ongania, 1876] ONE OF ONLY 4 COPIES PRINTED ON PARCHMENT - Ferdinand Ongania's reprint of the celebrated Venetian lace-pattern book first issued in 1600 by Cesare Vecellio, the assistant and cousin of Titian. It was no doubt published to both encourage and take advantage of the revival of the local lace industry, the Burano School of Lace ('Scuola Merletti Burano') having been founded in 1872.