Hardback with blue cloth boards and titles in gilt to spine and cover in very good plus condition, with just minor bumping to spine and corners. An ex-library copy with the usual stickers and marks. Textblock edges slightly foxed, but otherwise a clean copy. Fully illustrated throughout with 116 black and white and some colour plates. Colour frontispiece. Text followed by 24 pages of publishers\' and advertisers\' announcements.The author was the sometime Keeper of the Department of Textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum.