A French plate book reproducing nineteenth-century embroidered cap backs (fonds de bonnets) from the collection of Alfred Lescure, published by H. Ernst in Paris. A short introduction by C. Estrade discusses the history and regional variety of French women's caps and describes these examples as festive white-thread embroidery on linon or batiste, worked on a tambour frame. Fifty-four photographic plates show circular cap backs and elongated oval pieces with floral, leaf and ribbon motifs in whitework, openwork, cutwork and needle-lace fillings.