Transcriber's Notes:
Inconsistencies in spelling (for example "fogliami" vs. "foliami") have generally been preserved as originally printed. All corrections made to the text are listed at the end of this ebook.
SEVEN
CENTURIES
OF LACE
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BY
MRS. JOHN HUNGERFORD POLLEN
WITH A PREFACE BY ALAN COLE, C.B.
AND 120 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
MCMVIII
Printed in England
[PREFACE]
Dear Mrs. Pollen,—Having examined the admirable photographs to your lace collection, and the letterpress which you have written to accompany them, with a view to meet your wish that I should make revisions and suchlike where I thought necessary, please allow me in the first place to thank you for having entrusted me with what has been a very congenial work, and to say that I really have but few suggestions to offer. Such as they are, they amount to little more than amplifying, and slightly modifying here and there, what you have written.