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Stitches from Old English Embroideries [Portfolio No. 1] with Stitches from Eastern Embroideries from countries bordering on the Mediterranean, from Greece, the Near East and Persia [Portfolio No. 2] -
Louisa F. Pesel
1912-13 - Percy Lund, Bradford - First Editions
Two unique vellum folders specially made to present these rare portfolio’s as gifts from Louisa Pesel to Queen Helen of Greece and Denmark - Each portfolio housing a descriptive brochure together with loose numbered plates.
Royal Coat of Arms in gilt to the bindings and bookplates of the Queen Helen, together with a letter from Pesel to the Crown Princess of Greece. The second portfolio is dedicated to Queen Helen’s mother, Sophia of Prussia, who was Queen of Greece from 1913 to 1917, and 1920 to 1922.
Louisa Pesel (1870-1947) was Director of the Royal Hellenic School of Needlework and Lace in Athens from 1903-7, she helped set up the Embroiderers’ Guild of England and was elected the first President in 1920.
In 1910 Pesel was commissioned by the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum to produce a series of samples of historic English embroidery stitches. This commission led to these V&A portfolio publications written by her. First editions, Portfolio No. 1 with 35 numbered colour plates tipped on to descriptive card and an additional plate showing a ‘curtain for a set of bedhangings, linen, cotton and ground embroidered...’. (second edition of 1921 plates were not tipped on but incorporated into the text cards).
For more details on Louisa Pesel see https://www.notjusthockney.info/pesel-louisa/
Provenance: Queen Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania (1896-1982), with her bookplates. Later of Mary Priscilla Smith, with her bookplate. Each housed in a separate vellum folding chemise lined in silk, lettered in gilt to spines and upper panels, authors initials stamped in gilt to first portfolio and Queen Sophia of Prussia s royal insignia to the second portfolio, yellow silk ties, housed together in matching cloth slipcase with yellow silk pull. Condition: Fine but for some wrinkles to first pamphlet, in near fine vellum with creases to folds, and light soiling. Ref: 111529 Price: HK$ 14,000
Royal Coat of Arms in gilt to the bindings and bookplates of the Queen Helen, together with a letter from Pesel to the Crown Princess of Greece. The second portfolio is dedicated to Queen Helen’s mother, Sophia of Prussia, who was Queen of Greece from 1913 to 1917, and 1920 to 1922.
Louisa Pesel (1870-1947) was Director of the Royal Hellenic School of Needlework and Lace in Athens from 1903-7, she helped set up the Embroiderers’ Guild of England and was elected the first President in 1920.
In 1910 Pesel was commissioned by the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum to produce a series of samples of historic English embroidery stitches. This commission led to these V&A portfolio publications written by her. First editions, Portfolio No. 1 with 35 numbered colour plates tipped on to descriptive card and an additional plate showing a ‘curtain for a set of bedhangings, linen, cotton and ground embroidered...’. (second edition of 1921 plates were not tipped on but incorporated into the text cards).
For more details on Louisa Pesel see https://www.notjusthockney.info/pesel-louisa/
Provenance: Queen Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania (1896-1982), with her bookplates. Later of Mary Priscilla Smith, with her bookplate. Each housed in a separate vellum folding chemise lined in silk, lettered in gilt to spines and upper panels, authors initials stamped in gilt to first portfolio and Queen Sophia of Prussia s royal insignia to the second portfolio, yellow silk ties, housed together in matching cloth slipcase with yellow silk pull. Condition: Fine but for some wrinkles to first pamphlet, in near fine vellum with creases to folds, and light soiling. Ref: 111529 Price: HK$ 14,000