Author: NEVINSON, J.,
Title: Catalogue of English Domestic Embroidery of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries. First edn.
Description: London, Victoria & Albert Museum/Board of Education, 1938. Large 8°. Orig. wrappers, title in red type on front cover. (xxviii), 107pp. Coloured frontispiece, some col. ills. and many black/white ills. on 36 photo-plates out-of-text, with english language captions, extensive footnotes, index of Museum numbers, general index, list of plates, table of contents. bibliography, appendix: Pattern Books. A lavishly illustrated catalogue, listing and describing the Victoria & Albert Museum holdings at the time, preceded by a general introduction and a preface. Good to very good copy. Scarce. (front wrapper with some little signs of dog-earing).

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