Buy this book on-line MAIDMENT, MARGARET: : A MANUAL OF HAND-MADE BOBBIN LACE WORKLONDON.PAUL P.B. MINET,1976. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued(?), facsimile,1st edn thus.NFINE.No owner inscrptn.B/w pictorial decorated,laminated
boards; with minimal shelf-wear to edges and light bumping+creases to both head+ foot of spine/backstrip,and immaculate white endpapers.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents near pristine - considering book's age.UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj, as issued?,facsimile,1st edn thus,v-xpp+1- 183pp includes half-title+title pages,b/w photographic frntis,a foreword,preface by author,contents list,10 chapters,profuse b/w photographic illustrations with b/w line diagrams and an index.
Originally published by Pitman & Sons, 1931,here reprinted and reproduced in facsimile,by Paul B. Minet,Picadilly Rare Books,in 1976.For technical reasons the book has been printed in monochrome. Colour distinction in the original edition has been kept by either shaded grey or solid white.
". . .The author of this book has a comprehensive and expert knowledge of lace technique,and she has dealt with the subject in an exhaustive and thoroughly practical manner.The methods of working, the clear and straightforward descriptions given in systematic progressive stages, and the large number of diagrams,should prove extremely useful to all lace workers. . . ." [taken from foreword by W. G. Paulson Townsend.]An exceptional facsimile copy of a scarce and authoritative title/book.
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