Fourth edition (1902) of Mrs. Bury Palliser's classic history of lace, revised and rewritten under the editorship of M. Jourdain and Alice Dryden. It opens with chapters on needlework, cut-work and the origins of lace, then surveys needle and bobbin lace country by country: Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Flanders, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Russia, England, Ireland and Scotland. Later chapters cover machine-made lace and bobbin net. The book has many photographic plates and engraved figures of laces, portraits showing lace in costume, and an appendix bibliography of early pattern books, such as Vinciolo, plus a full index.