[ARMENIAN EMBROIDERY SPECIMEN BOOKLET PRINTED IN TBILISI] Հայկական նշանագրեր, Տետր 2, i.e. Haykakan nshanagrer, tetr 2 [Armenian characters, booklet 2]. Armenian alphabet specimen book for embroidery.
Tbilisi: self-published (Khudozh.-Lit. R. Shakhbaziantsa), 1891. Oblong quarto (17 × 29.7 cm). Original lithographed wrappers; dedication leaf followed by eight lithographed leaves of embroidery character specimens to rectos. Light wear to wrappers, with some fraying to lower edge, affecting first few leaves; small pen mark to upper edge; overall still about very good. Item #55897
Rare lithographed alphabet specimen book of Armenian characters for use in embroidery. We are unable to find any information about the artist, who lived in Tbilisi (Tiflis) and had published a first volume of designs in a smaller format in 1887. The plates were printed by the lithographer R. Shakhbaziants, likewise active in Tbilisi. With a striking lithographed cover illustration showing an allegorical female figure among ruins, with dark-haired putti studying the Armenian alphabet, set against the two peaks of Mount Ararat and a small church to the right.
As of October 2026, not in KVK or OCLC. Not held by the Georgian National Library. We can only trace the copy at the Armenian National Library.
Price: €750.00