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Title: Needlework As Art

Author: Marian Alford

Release Date: November 14, 2009 [EBook #30472]

Language: English

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NEEDLEWORK AS ART

BY

LADY M. ALFORD

[Illustration]

London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, AND RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
1886.

[_All rights reserved._]

LONDON:
PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED,
ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

[Illustration: TELEMACHUS PENELOPE]

DEDICATED BY PERMISSION

TO

THE QUEEN.

TO

THE QUEEN.

_Your Majesty's most gracious acceptance of the Dedication of my book
on "Needlework as Art" casts a light upon the subject that shows its
worthiness, and my inability to do it justice. Still, I hope I may
fill a gap in the artistic literature of our day, and I venture to lay
my work at your Majesty's feet with loyal devotion._

MARIAN M. ALFORD.

PREFACE.

In the Preface to the "Handbook of Art Needlework," which I edited for
the Royal School at South Kensington in 1880, I undertook to