An illustrated 1878 sales catalog of lace-making patterns from Mme. Gurney & Co. of New York and Brooklyn. Photographic plates show collars, cuffs, bibs, barbs, handkerchiefs, tidies, mats, head-dresses, edgings and insertions, each with pattern and materials prices. The volume also includes a preface on lace making, title pages and advertisements for companion handbooks (How to Make Lace, How to Work Crewel, How to Work Embroidery, Poonah painting), and a contents list for the four-book lace instruction series covering Honiton, point, Limoges, point appliqué and guipure netting.