A HANDBOOK OF EMBROIDERY.—By Lewis F. Day and Miss Mary Buckle. Being a handbook on the Art for Designers, Needleworkers, Students, Teachers, &c. Both artistic and practical sides of the subject are thoroughly treated, and the work is illustrated with Photographs of Stitches, and Historic Examples, &c.
Now published, the most handy, useful, and comprehensive work on the subject.
ALPHABETS, OLD AND NEW.—Containing 150 complete Alphabets, 30 Series of Numerals, Numerous Facsimiles of Ancient Dates. Selected and arranged by Lewis F. Day. Preceded by a short account of the Development of the Alphabet. With Modern Examples specially designed by Walter Crane, Patten Wilson, A. Beresford Pite, the Author, and others. Crown 8vo, art linen. Second Impression, completing Fifth Thousand. Price 3s. 6d. net.
“Mr. Day’s explanation of the growth of form in letters is particularly valuable.... Many excellent alphabets are given in illustration of his remarks.”—The Studio.
“Every one who employs practical lettering will be grateful for ‘Alphabets, Old and New.’ Mr. Day has written a scholarly and pithy introduction, and contributes some beautiful alphabets of his own design.”—The Art Journal.
“A practical resumé of all that is to be known on the subject, concisely and clearly stated.”—St. James’s Gazette.
“It goes without saying that whatever Mr. Batsford publishes and Mr. Day has to do with is presented in a good artistic form, complete, and wherever that is possible, graceful.”—The Athenæum.
A HANDBOOK OF ORNAMENT.—With 300 Plates, containing about 3,000 Illustrations of the Elements and Application of Decoration to Objects. By F. S. Meyer, Professor at the School of Applied Art, Karlsruhe. Second English Edition, revised by Hugh Stannus, F.R.I.B.A., Lecturer on Applied Art at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington. Thick 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top. Price 12s. 6d. Net 10s.
“A library, a museum, an encyclopædia, and an art school in one. To rival it as a book of reference, one must fill a book case. The quality of the drawings is unusually high, the choice of examples is singularly good.... The work is practically an epitome of a hundred works on Design.”—Studio.