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Dainty work for pleasure and profit (1891)

Heron, Mrs. Adelaide E · Chicago : Danks & Co. · leaf 129

An illustration from Dainty work for pleasure and profit, 1891, leaf 129
maybe slightly conventionalized. Pale gold for the crescent, three shades olivegreen and three shades pale pink for the floral design around the crescent,and a combination of blue and gold, pink and brown and green and orangeharmoniously blended, for- the butterflies, will produce an artistic… … BOOK COVERS. For many centuries, ladies of rank and wealth have delighted to workwith rare and dainty device covers for missals, prayer books and choicevolumes. Many of these covers have been preserved as treasures of decorative art. In the Eighteenth cen-tury the art of decorating covers fell…

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