The practical book of early American arts and crafts
A 1916 survey of American decorative arts by Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Abbot McClure and Mabel Foster Bainbridge, published by Lippincott in Philadelphia and London for collectors and craft students. Halftone photographs of pewter porringers, engraved metal chargers and slip-decorated pottery sit beside line drawings of tulip-and-leaf folk motifs, sgraffito borders and dated inscriptions useful as ornament and pattern sources.
