But the book contains far more ambitious designs. There are Sol, Luna, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and others, whose dignities and vocation must be inferred from the emblematical accompaniments. There is "La Deesse des fleurs representant le printemps." "La Deesse des Bleds representant l'este." "Ce Bacchus representant l'Autonne." "Ceste figure representant l'hiver," &c. &c. Appended is this "Extraict du Privilege." "Per grace et privelege du Roy, est permis a Jean le Clerc le jeune, tailleur d'histoires a Paris, d'imprimer ou faire imprimer {vendre} et distribuer un livre intitule livre de patrons de Lingerie, DEDIE A LA ROYNE, nouvellement invente par le Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, avec deffences a tous Libraires, Imprimeurs, ou autres, de quelque condition et qualite quilz soyent, de faire ny contrefaire, aptisser ny {agrandir}, ou pocher lesdits figures, ny exposer en vente ledict Livre sans le {conge} ou permission dudict le Clerc, et ce jusques au temps et terme de neuf ans finis et accomplis, sur peine de confiscation de tous les livres qui se trouveront imprimez, et damande arbitraire: comme plus a plein est declare en lettres patentes, donnees a Paris ce douziesme jour de Novembre, 1587." Another work, preserved in the British Museum, was published at Strasbourg, 1596, seemingly from designs of the same Vinciolo. These consist of about six-and-thirty plates, with patterns in white on a black ground, consisting of a few birds and figures, but chiefly of stars and wreaths pricked out in every possible variety; and at the end of the book a dozen richly wrought patterns, without any edging, were seemingly designed for what we should now call "insertion" work or lace. There is another, by the same author, printed at Basil in 1599, which varies but slightly from the foregoing. This Frederick de Vinciolo is doubtless the same person who was summoned to France, by Catherine de Medicis, to instruct the ladies of the court in the art of netting the lace of which the then fashionable ruffs were made. In another volume we have-- "Corona delle Nobili et virtuose Donne, nel quale si dimostra in varij Dissegni tutte le sorti di Mostre di punti tagliati, punti in Aria, punti Fiamenghi, punti a Reticelle, e d'ogni altre sorte, cosi per Freggi, per Merli, e Rosette, che con l'Aco si usano hoggidi per tutta l'Europa. "E molte delle quali Mostre possono servire ancora per opere a Mazzette. "Con le dichiarationi a le Mostre a Lavori fatti da Lugretia Romana. "In Venetia appresso Alessandro di Vecchi, 1620." The plates here are very similar to those in the above-mentioned works. Some are accompanied by short explanations, saying where they are most used and to whom they are best suited, as-- "Hopera Bellissima, che per il piu le Signore Duchese, et altre Signore si servono per li suoi lavori." "Queste bellissime Rosette usano anco le gentildonne Venetiane da far traverse."