From simple patterns to the most intricate ornamentation, hand-drawn decoration was a vital part of 19th-century design. Originally published in 1888, ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing ...