Excerpt from General Guide to the Collections: With Plans and 45 Illustrations<br><br>The primary object of the founders of the Museum was to provide models for, and otherwise to aid the improvement of such manufactures and crafts as are associated with decorative design in other words, to assist craftsmen and others to study the methods, processes, and taste, which have governed the arts and crafts of past ages. The question of classification, which might best serve this purpose, has always been a difficult one; but the balance of expert opinion has generally been in favour of grouping by industries, on the ground that students would thus obtain greater facilities for their researches.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.