The Theatre of women
By: designed by Jobst Ammon ; edited by Alfred Aspland
Contributors: Aspland, Alfred, 1815-1880; Modius, François, 1556-1597; Feyerabend, Sigmund, 1528-1590
Series: Holbein Society's fac-simile reprints; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Holbein Society's facsimile reprints; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: For the Holbein Society by A. Bros.
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: lat
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Costume; Women's clothing
Other titles: Gynæceum, or, The theatre of women :; Frauentrachtenbuch.
Work titles: Gynaeceum
Notes: Facsimile reprint of the Latin edition of the "Frauentrachtenbuch" (Frankfurt, 1586) with title: Gynæceum, siue Theatrvm mvliervm, in qvo præcipvarvm omnivm per Evropam in primis, nationvm, gentivm, popvlorvmqve ... fœmineos habitus videre est, artificiosissimis nvnc primvm figuris ... expressos à Iodoco Amano. Additis ad singvlas figvras singvlis octostichis Francisci Modii Brvg. ... M.D. LXXXVI. Francoforti, impensis Sigismundi Feyrabendij.

"Index of illustrations": p. [xxvii]-xxxii.

"To the Most Serene Lady Isabella of Austria, queen of France" (translation of Sigmund Feyerabend's "Epistola nvncvpatoria," introductory to the Lation ed.): p. [xxxiii]-xl.

Reproduction of the original from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University.

"List of Ammon's works": p. [xiii]-xxvi.

In Latin; with an English introduction and dedication.