Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Current Literature. 42: 102. Ja. ’07. 1340w. |
Thomson, W. G. History of tapestry, from the earliest times until the present day; with 4 plates in color and numerous il. in black and white. *$12. Putnam.
7–25516.
A pretentious work on tapestry from the earliest times to the present day. “Its records throw valuable side-lights on history. In the present volume we find many more instances than are generally known where national events have been commemorated and where sovereigns and princes have paved the way to negotiations and treaties desired by them by the timely gift of a costly tapestry. Finally, tapestries give us a wonderfully graphic idea of house construction and decoration, of folk and home life of old times.” (Outlook.) Over eighty color and half-tone illustrations enhance the value to students of tapestries.
“We are not sure if the definition of tapestry given by the author is faultless.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 217. Ag: 24. 1020w. |
“It is not only a treasury of information, but so cleverly have the innumerable details been woven into the narrative that it is readable as well as interesting.” Frederick W. Goodkin.
| + + | Dial. 43: 36. Jl. 16, ’07. 1300w. |