Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older very rare book in good condition. 1886 1st edition. Pages in good condition. Some bindings a little loose. Some tanning and marking due to age. Gilt edged pages. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In the Preface to the “Handbook of Art Needlework” which I edited for the Royal School at South Kensington in 1880 I undertook to write a second part to be devoted to design colour and the common-sense modes of treating decorative art as applied especially to embroidered hangings furniture dress and the smaller objects of luxury. Circumstances have since then obliged me to recon- sider this intention; and I have found it more practicable to cast the information which I have collected from Eastern and Western sources into the form of a separate work which in no way supersedes or interferes with the technical instruction supposed to be conveyed in a hand- book. I have found so much amusement in learning for myself the history of the art of embroidery and in tracing the beginnings and the interchanges of national schools that I cannot but hope that I may excite a similar interest in some of my readers and so induce those who are capable to help and lift it to a higher place than it has been allowed in these latter days to occupy. (OS)