4to. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Decorated endpapers. 128pp. With colour photographs and examples throughout. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; edges slightly creased. Not price clipped). Else a clean and tight copy. Victorian Embroidery is a magnificent book that evokes a by-gone, gracious age when gentlewomen plied their needles in the pursuit of excellence in needlework and the creation of beauty.

CRAFTS FREDA PARKER, Victorian Embroidery, needles, excellence, needlework,