A Victorian guide to copying antique needle-made point lace, published in London in 1878 with seventeen illustrations by the author. After a preface and a short history of old point lace, it explains how to work braid, brides (bars) and button-hole-stitch fillings. Plates pair photographic reproductions of 17th-century Flemish and Italian laces in the South Kensington Museum with line-drawn working patterns for copying them, plus an original lace d'oyley design. The scan ends with the publisher's catalogue of Chatto & Windus books and an advertisement for an antique lace dealer.