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⁂ For sale by all booksellers, or sent post-paid, upon receipt of price, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, Publishers,
743 and 745 Broadway, New York.
WOMAN’S HANDIWORK
IN MODERN HOMES.
BY
CONSTANCE CARY HARRISON.
One Volume, 8vo, Richly Bound in Illuminated Cloth, with numerous Illustrations
and Five Colored Plates from designs by Samuel Colman, Rosina
Emmet, George Gibson, and others.
Price, $2.00.
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Mrs. Harrison’s book combines a discussion of the principles of design and decoration, practical chapters on embroidery, painting on silk and china, etc., with most helpful hints as to the domestic manufacture of many objects of use and beauty in house-furnishing, and also suggestions for the arrangement and decoration of rooms in the details of screens, portieres, the mantel-piece, etc.
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CRITICAL NOTICES.
“A volume quite the most comprehensive of its kind ever published.”—The Art Interchange.
“It is, indeed, the most comprehensive and practical guide to the amateur decorative arts that has yet appeared.”—Art Amateur.
“The work supplies a current need of the day, which nothing else has met.”—Boston Traveller.