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Dainty work for pleasure and profit (1893)

[s.l. : s.n.] · leaf 100

An illustration from Dainty work for pleasure and profit, 1893, leaf 100
maybe slightly conventionalized. Pale gold for the crescent, thr^e 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 choice\-olumes. Many of these covers have been preserved as treasures of j decorative art. In the Eighteenth cen-tury the art of decorating covers fell…

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