BOOKS

GIRDLE BOOKS

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This page's last update - August 13, 2008

COVERED GIRDLE BOOKS

Often members of nobility are seen with small books in their hands or hanging from a girdle in paintings of the Renaissance. Usually these were prayer books or "books of hours" and many still exist in museums and private collections. These books were often very ornate, covered with leather or fabric and embellished with embroidery and adorned with gold, silver, pearls and precious gems.



Please choose from the following titles:

Shakespeare
The Bard's Guide to Abuses & Affronts
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Love Sonnets of
Shakespeare
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My Servant Moses - 1 left

David: A Man After
God's Own Heart
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Irish Blessings - 2 left

Constellations - 1 left

Palm Reading - 0 left

Bible Stories - 4 left

Aesops Fables - 1 left

Girdle Text Books

This unique little 2 3/4" X 3 1/4" text book has been covered with brocade or velvet. The brocade can be left plain or beaded. The velvet has a medallion with beads in the center of the front. Both fabrics have ribbon ties closures. It hangs from a doubled cord for attaching to your girdle/belt.
At this time only available in black Velvet with gold medallion!

GA6A
Plain Brocade Girdle Book
$28.00
NOT AVAILABLE
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Color
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GA6B
Medallion Girdle Book
$35.00
BLACK ONLY WITH GOLD MEDALLION
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Color
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GA6C
Beaded Girdle Book (Pictured)
$45.00
NOT AVAILABLE
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Covered Address Books

These handy little 3" X 4" covered books contain an address book for all those new people you meet at events and faires! They have been covered with brocade or velvet and have a doubled cord for attaching to your girdle/belt. The brocade covers can be left plain or beaded. The velvet covers have a medallion with beads in the center of the front. Both fabrics have ribbon ties closures.
Velvet - Out of Stock
Brocade Plain - Cream, Green
1 Brocade Beaded - Burgundy (shown)
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GA7A
Plain Brocade Address Book
$28.00
Color
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GA7B
Medallion Address Book
$35.00
NOT AVAILABLE
Color
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GA7C
Beaded Address Book (Pictured)
$45.00
Color


Mirror Book

OUT OF STOCK In the mid-sixteenth century it was fashionable to disguise the pocket mirror as a little book, looking like a prayer book. A small hand-mirror concealed in "a little book with an embroidered cover" was found among the possession of Anna, "Queen of the Romans," consort of the future Emperor Maximilian II, on her death in 1547. The courtiers at the court of King Henry III of France carried their mirrors in book form in their right-hand breeches pockets. Queen Margaret of Spain, wife of King Philip III, had a pocket-mirror in a book cover set in enamelled gold.
GA3A
Plain Brocade Mirror Book
$30.00
NOT AVAILABLE
Color


Mirror Book

This unique accessory has a small oval mirror mounted on a wooden form disguised as a small book. It's brocade cover has ribbon ties for closures. Hangs from a doubled cord for attaching to a girdle/belt.
Black only


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